(Please note we are throwing away old books that no one is checking out or books that are too damaged to circulate) Edit: fixed typo
How long does a book have to go without being checked out to be purged?
Depends on the library and the type of book. Typical time frames are 10 years, 7 years, 5 years, or 2 years. For example I work in an busy urban library in the children’s room and we were running out of space in our fiction novel section so we did a 5 year then a 2 year when the first one didn’t make enough space. Our nonfiction section grows less quickly so we do 7 year weeds.
Doing difficult, noble work OP. Thank you for keeping local community resources running.
That’s got to be tough. Hope this means you can eventually order more that people have been requesting.
It does! We gotta clear space on the shelves sometimes for new books :)
