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Part of this project is interviewing Librarians about their institution's weeding policies in relation to collection development. I was able to arrange two interviews.One will be with Librarian M, head of collections for my local library system. The other will be with Librarian P, the Library Manager at a local university.

I’ll reiterate this at the top of my interview with Librarian M, but for the sake of objectivity and full disclosure: I am an employee of my local library system and have worked under Librarian M before. She was my branch manager when I transferred to S. Branch Library in June 2016, and was the manager of W. library when I transferred back to work on the Reference Department in April 2018. She was the branch manager and directly above my supervisor, the head of reference. We’re cool. We’re friends in Pokemon Go, and she’s a reference on my resume.

Once my interviews were scheduled, I had to move on to the next step. What do I ask these super helpful Library Heroes? To answer that, I went to our textbook, A Crash Course in Collection Development by Wayne Disher to reread Chapter 11. From there I was able to determine what talking points would be important for me to ask questions about for the interview.


(Callie thinks I should be doing other things. Scratching her ears for starters…)

I outlined ten questions for the interviews and look forward to sitting down with Librarians M and P!

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