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Moroni, A.E. (2012).WEEDING IN A DIGITAL AGE. Library Journal, 137(15), 26-28
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Ebooks may not require shelf space, but librarians are not exempt from weeding their digital collections. Alene Moroni's article about weeding in a digital age encourages librarians to retain useful materials, strive to keep the most accurate information, and consider whether or not what they keep is meaningful to patrons.
Removing an ebook from a collection requires several steps, such as contacting a vendor and manually removing the bibliographic record from the catalog. Collection maintenance tools can reveal which titles are in demand and as platforms become more sophisticated, developers are proving themselves to be receptive to librarians' needs for collection management tools.
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