99% Invisible

Weeding is Fundamental

May 14, 2019

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The Great Book Purge - The Author Versus the Library

01:31

The Library's Weirding Controversy

01:57

The Gorilla Librarians Stolen Books

02:00

Introduction

3min

How to Get Rid of Books

2min

The San Francisco Public Library After the Loma Prieta Quake

2min

Weeding Library Space After the San Francisco Earthquake

2min

The Musty Abbreviation for Libraries

2min

Weeding Is a Touchy Subject

2min

The San Francisco Public Library

2min

The Atrium of the New San Francisco Library

2min

Gorilla Librarians - The Freedom Fighters

2min

10.

The Library's Secret Weapon, the Card Catalog

2min

11.

The Gorilla Librarians Stolen Books

2min

12.

The Great Book Purge - The Author Versus the Library

2min

13.

The Library's Weirding Controversy

2min

14.

Weeding a Last Copy of a Book

2min

15.

Weeding Is Fun

2min

16.

The Lenovo Slim Laptop - The Perfect Laptop for the Holidays

6min

17.

The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky

2min

18.

The Penny Drive in the Depression

5min

19.

Radiotopia Podcast 99% Invisible

4min

Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of freeing up library space is called weeding. When the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library was damaged by an earthquake 1989, the argument over which books need to be weeded, and how they were chosen for removal, reached fever pitch.

Weeding is Fundamental

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99% Invisible

Weeding is Fundamental

The Great Book Purge - The Author Versus the Library

The Library's Weirding Controversy

The Gorilla Librarians Stolen Books

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