1. Acadia’s Dark History
Weeding or as we secretly refer to it: Maintenance!
We are not great weeders (think an episode of hoarders)
Infamous “dotting” project – late 90s, early 2000s
Prior to that: the more infamous booksale (prior 1997)
Withdrawal: cleverly not called “weeding” in the Maintenance section of the Collection Development Policy
Withdrawal is defined as the removal of materials from the collections and is a carefully planned, ongoing process that is developed and implemented in partnership with professors to ensure that the integrity of the collections is maintained. Lack of space is not considered a legitimate reason for withdrawing materials from the collection. The number of times that an item in the collection has or has not been signed out is also not considered a legitimate measure when considering withdrawal. The definition of withdrawal does not include the removal of duplicate copies as long as one copy of a work remains in the collection, since the intellectual content of the collection does not change. (Different editions of a work are not considered to be duplicates.)

2. Acadia’s New Beginning
As a member of Novanet, Acadia received data on most of its collections:
Serials and Special Collections were excluded
Greenglass data is a snapshot in time
Customized data from comparator institutions inside and outside of the Novanet consortium
Usage data from the catalogue.

3. Greenglass sample data

4. Collection Assessment Project

5. Collection Assessment Project
Communication with faculty
Presented to Senate Library Committee
Passed through Senate
Direct communication with faculty
through liaison librarians
Updates and reminders when sections are being assessed