Rebecca Vnuk has a high profile in the library community as a librarian, consultant, workshop presenter, speaker, writer, and blogger. She is currently best known as Editor, Reference and Collection Management, at Booklist, and as the co-creator of the popular blog Shelf Renewal. Her most recent library position was as Adult Services Director at the Glen Ellyn (IL) Public Library. She has been widely recognized for her contributions to the field. In 2008, she was Library Journal’s Fiction Reviewer of the Year, and in 2010 she received the Public Library Association’s Allie Beth Martin Award for excellence in Readers’ Advisory and was named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. Vnuk is the author of Read On . . . Women’s Fiction (2009) and Women’s Fiction Authors: A Research Guide (2009), and co-author (with Nanette Donohue) of Women’s Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (2013). She has spoken at conferences and presented workshops extensively; her panels are among the most popular at ALA Annual and Public Library Association meetings.

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ISBN: 978-0-8389-1327-7 (paper)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vnuk, Rebecca.

The weeding handbook : a shelf-by-shelf guide / Rebecca Vnuk.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8389-1327-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Discarding of books, periodicals, etc.—Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Collection development (Libraries)—United States—Policy statements. 3. Public libraries—Collection development—United States. I. Title.

Z703.6.V68 2015

025.2'16—dc23

2015008707