Lending Collection Development Guideline

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7. Deselection


The following criteria are used for deselecting lending collection items:

  • Items where information is out-of-date, misleading, inaccurate, or obsolete (e.g. out-dated health or legal resources, superseded travel guides, dated diet cookery)
  • Items in poor physical condition due to normal wear and tear, damaged or dirty. (e.g. Worn plastic jackets, exposed boards, torn, stained or yellowed pages, mouldy, defaced, or smelly)
  • Excessive numbers of copies in the collection
  • Items are no longer relevant to the needs and demands of the community
  • Insufficient usage
  • Where an updated edition is available.