Week 3 : Starting Late...

Memorial Day kind of messed up my schedule : I have not been able to contribute (and read) as much as I would have liked. Anyway, I am still reading Double Fold for LIS 2000, and it is very good but makes me second guess myself about every other page. I still am not clear about whether or not it is a good idea to deaccession items (not destroy) because of space issues. Baker seems to think, at least fo rthe larger institutions with vast resources, that it is better and even cheaper to store than microfilm and destroy. I see his point but what about smaller institutions? Perhaps he talks about them later, but we have very limited resources and space and a large collection. I would be great to keep everything but i woulsd be stepping over boxes all of the time. for instance, we have many books on subjects that are not part of our mission statement but belonged to prominent Schwenkfelders. What should be done with them? More on this later...