Selecting Withdrawal Candidates

The library has established several sets of rules-based criteria for identifying "withdrawal candidates" to be considered for weeding. The Library of Congress Classifications and the corresponding criteria used to identify withdrawal candidates are listed below.

Class A - General Works

Class B - Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
(except BF Pscyhology - See Criteria for Q's for these items)

Class C - Auxiliary Sciences of History

Criteria for selecting withdrawal candidates: 

• Titles that have not circulated since 2000
• Titles that are at least 10 years old (based on imprint date
• Titles held by 100 or more US libraries
• Titles held by any 3 resource sharing partners  OR by one of our geographical peers (Athens State, UAH, and A&M)
• Titles added to the collection more than 5 years ago
• Titles not reviewed in Choice
• Titles not in Resources for College Libraries

Class D - World History and History of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, New Zealand, etc.

Class E-F - History of the Americas

Criteria for selecting withdrawal candidates:

• Titles that have never circulated
• Titles that are at least 30 years old 
• Titles held 200 or more US libraries
• Titles held by any 3 resource sharing partners  OR by one of our geographical peers (Athens State, UAH, and A&M)
• Titles added to the collection more than 5 years ago 
• Titles not reviewed in Choice
• Titles not in Resources for College Libraries

Class G - Geography, Anthropology, Recreation

Class H - Social Sciences

Class J - Political Science

Class K -Law

Class L - Education

Criteria for selecting withdrawal candidates:

• Titles that have not circulated since 2000
• Titles that are at least 10 years old (based on imprint date)
• Titles held by 100 or more US libraries
• Titles held by any 3 resource sharing partners  OR by one of our geographical peers (Athens State, UAH, and A&M)
• Titles added to the collection more than 5 years ago 
• Titles not reviewed in Choice
• Titles not in Resources for College Libraries

Class M - Music and Books on Music

Class N - Fine Arts

Criteria for selecting withdrawal candidates:

• Titles that have never circulated
• Titles held by 200 or more US libraries
• Titles that are at least 20 years old
• Titles held by any 3 resource sharing partners  OR by one of our geographical peers (Athens State, UAH, and A&M)
• Titles added to the collection more than 5 years ago
• Titles not reviewed in Choice
• Titles not in Resources for College Libraries 

Class P - Language and Literature

Criteria for selecting withdrawal candidates:

• Titles that have never circulated
• Titles that are at least 20 years old
• Titles held by 200 or more US libraries
• Titles held by any 3 resource sharing partners  OR by one of our geographical peers (Athens State, UAH, and A&M)
• Titles added to the collection more than 5 years ago
• Titles not reviewed in Choice
• Titles not in Resources for College Libraries  

Class Q - Science

Class R - Medicine

Class S - Agriculture

Class T - Technology 

(Except subclasses TR - Photography, TS - Manufactures, TT - Handicrafts. Arts and crafts,

 and TX - Home Economics. See  criteria for A for these items.)

Criteria for selecting withdrawal candidates: 

• Titles that have not circulated since 2002
• Titles that are at least 5 years old (based on imprint date)
• Titles held by 100 or more US libraries
• Titles held by any 2 resource sharing partners  OR by one of our geographical peers (Athens State, UAH, and A&M)
• Titles added to the collection more than 5 years ago 
• Titles not reviewed in Choice
• Titles not in Resources for College Libraries

 

Class U - Military Science

Class V - Naval Science

Class Z - Bibliography, Library Science, Information Resources (General)

Criteria for selecting withdrawal candidates:

• Titles that have not circulated since 2000
• Titles that are at least 10 years old (based on imprint date)
• Titles held by 100 or more US libraries
• Titles held by any 3 resource sharing partners  OR by one of our geographical peers (Athens State, UAH, and A&M)
• Titles added to the collection more than 5 years ago 
• Titles not reviewed in Choice
• Titles not in Resources for College Libraries