{"id":33441,"date":"2026-02-02T08:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/?p=33441"},"modified":"2026-05-04T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T14:17:30","slug":"steacie-weeding-project-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/blog\/2026\/02\/02\/steacie-weeding-project-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Steacie Weeding Project Begins\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image uagb-block-eb87a733 wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-none\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/steacie_library-1.jpeg\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/steacie_library-1-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-33446\" width=\"817\" height=\"545\" title=\"steacie_library\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of ongoing space&nbsp;renewal&nbsp;efforts,&nbsp;York University Libraries&nbsp;has&nbsp;initiated&nbsp;a weeding project&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Steacie Science&nbsp;and&nbsp;Engineering Library.&nbsp;We are undertaking this work to improve the usability&nbsp;of&nbsp;our&nbsp;collections&nbsp;and&nbsp;to&nbsp;create&nbsp;more study space.&nbsp;This project is part of a&nbsp;broader effort to&nbsp;ensure that our&nbsp;library&nbsp;spaces and services are responsive to&nbsp;new ways of&nbsp;learning,&nbsp;collaborating,&nbsp;and&nbsp;interacting with&nbsp;library&nbsp;collections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-york-red-pms-186-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dd1a9ab397b6512485279dbf9f753d6f\"><em>Why&nbsp;are we doing this?<\/em>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n<p>York University&nbsp;Libraries are&nbsp;currently facing significant space constraints&nbsp;and pressures on&nbsp;our&nbsp;capacity for&nbsp;print processing.&nbsp;&nbsp;Use of&nbsp;our&nbsp;print&nbsp;collections&nbsp;has&nbsp;also steadily declined. By&nbsp;carefully weeding&nbsp;items that are&nbsp;available&nbsp;electronically&nbsp;on&nbsp;stable&nbsp;platforms&nbsp;and or are no longer needed locally, we can free up space, reduce redundancy, and support long-term stewardship of our collections.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-york-red-pms-186-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1de289e3c338dff83fb784144ad81486\"><em>How are we doing this?<\/em>&nbsp;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Weeding criteria have been carefully&nbsp;developed by a team of librarians in&nbsp;consideration of evolving teaching and research needs. In keeping with our&nbsp;e-preferred&nbsp;acquisition model,&nbsp;items that are reproduced in their entirety in a stable digital format will be weeded along with items that are outdated, obsolete, or are in poor condition. Infrequently used items that do not reflect York\u2019s current or&nbsp;anticipated&nbsp;curriculum&nbsp;and are readily&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.yorku.ca\/web\/blog\/2021\/08\/11\/borrowing-from-other-libraries-just-got-better\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">available from other libraries<\/a>&nbsp;are&nbsp;also being considered for withdrawal.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&nbsp;are undertaking this work&nbsp;carefully to ensure alignment with our&nbsp;collection guidelines&nbsp;and with&nbsp;best practices in academic libraries.&nbsp;&nbsp;All items being considered for removal have been reviewed by&nbsp;the&nbsp;appropriate subject&nbsp;librarian(s),&nbsp;and quality control processes&nbsp;are in place&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure that print titles that are&nbsp;still&nbsp;needed remain in the collection.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-york-red-pms-186-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cc232bca438418110c1d58a378b3cf92\"><em>Feedback and Questions<\/em>?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>We are committed to transparency throughout this process and invite your questions or concerns.&nbsp;&nbsp;We will&nbsp;provide updates&nbsp;as&nbsp;the work progresses.&nbsp;If you have questions,&nbsp;please contact Patti Ryan (<a href=\"mailto:pryan@yorku.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pryan@yorku.ca<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of ongoing space&nbsp;renewal&nbsp;efforts,&nbsp;York University Libraries&nbsp;has&nbsp;initiated&nbsp;a weeding project&nbsp;at the&nbsp;Steacie Science&nbsp;and&nbsp;Engineering Library.&nbsp;We are undertaking this work to improve the usability&nbsp;of&nbsp;our&nbsp;collections&nbsp;and&nbsp;to&nbsp;create&nbsp;more study space.&nbsp;This project is part of a&nbsp;broader effort to&nbsp;ensure that our&nbsp;library&nbsp;spaces and services are responsive to&nbsp;new ways of&nbsp;learning,&nbsp;collaborating,&nbsp;and&nbsp;interacting 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