The culling or "weeding" of materials is an essential task in the running of a library, so the process carried out at the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library in 2010 shouldn't seem all that ...

Recently, I moved to a smaller home. I’d helped my parents downsize twice, so I understood that no one wanted my old stuff any more than I’d wanted theirs. And while I’m generally unsentimental about ...

A group of retired librarians and community members gathered at Berkeley Public Library’s central branch Wednesday evening preceding a Board of Library Trustees meeting to protest increased ...

A May Reddit post showing a dumpster bin filled with books, allegedly behind Olympic and Centennial residential halls, sparked outrage and confusion among students. The post to UCLA’s subreddit with ...

Peel School District — located in Ontario, Canada, and bordering Toronto — is reportedly weeding books from its libraries with publication dates prior to 2008. The district's school board has yet to ...

An unusually high number of books were permanently removed from the shelves of the Central Library in 2010. Some 67,019 books, periodicals and other printed material were weeded out, more than ...