We are in the middle of Weeding. Not just weeding, in the sense of "Oh dear, some of this might be a bit outdated." This, my friends, is Weeding, in the sense of "Why do we have a book explaining that one's physical build can predispose one to a life of crime?" Weeding in the sense of, having only gone through the H and J sections and children's lit room, we have deleted several thousand item records. Shelves that were once too full to hold new books now have room to see what is there, rather than just a mass of stuff. We have also gotten rid of some truly disgusting things that we hardly wanted to touch, even to remove, and probably removed some mold problems in the making.

Of course, we have some dissenters among the faculty. We also have some faculty who are helpful in sorting out what is a classic and might just need a cleaner copy and what is horrible and must go. Things that are not in utterly hideous condition (or, in one case, so morally offensive we all felt sick) are going to Better World Books as fast as we can get boxes from them and convince UPS to pick them up.

It has been slow going, but we are nearly done with the top floor of the stacks and we have A Plan. Dividing things up between the three of us, we have what looks like a realistic goal for the end of February. Beyond that, who knows? It would be completely awesome to finish the whole library before July 1, but there's the catch that we have other things to do too. *le sigh* Further updates as we progress.