Changes

To make space, distribute and bring life to [[The Frontyard Library|frontyard's library]], we need to do some weeding.There's currently a small shelf of new acquisitions of special significance to the space and the communities who use it, at eye level as you enter. We'd like to grow this!

(This is a work in progress, derived initially from a meeting of librarians on the 25th of May 2019, and updated by the Library & Publications Working Group in February 2023)

The process described below will become is envisaged to be an ongoing project for the library Library - to allow allowing us to constantly evaluate the state of the collection, and allow make room for new acquisitions.

Any visitor to the library is welcome to contribute to this process.

We are designating books for potential weeding by turn them sideways, so that there their spines face upwards('unsure if this should be kept') or downwards ('definitely out!'). These are then grouped together at the beginning of the shelf, and separated from the other books by a red slip.

Everyone is invited to take part in this process, whenever they like.

We will have an open meeting - NEXT WEEDING MEETING 22 FEB 2023 (all welcome!) - where collectively we work through each of the books designated for weeding in the first pass. For a book to be discarded it will require a majority consensus from all those present. If consensus cannot be met the book will remain in the collection.

Photograph A photograph of the books book's cover, the decision, and reasoning will be archived on the Slack #library channel, Instagram and/or flickr.

If books are deemed rare but do not contribute to the FY Library Mission, than then we will find the book a new home (NLA, State Library, Local Library).

If books are not rare than there are a number of options,:

1. re-purposing (collageeg. Frontyard's Things Fall Apart collage club, papermaking mushroom-growing substrate, paper-making workshops, etc)

If "no", continue to consider the following factors.: