weeding the fiction section

Some of the books in our collection are 13 years old. Last year we skipped inventory but weeded non-fiction, biography, and picture books. This year we get to do inventory but first we'll be weeding videos, fiction, and professional development. We even have a small parent section but the only parents who check them out are school employees. We have at least 20 parents who check out books regularly but they ususally stick to fiction and non-fiction.

So today I went and pulled some of the older books and did some spot-checking. In many cases they haven't been checked out at all since 2003. That was the year our school started using A/R. Renaissance Learning has a subscription option that gives access to all the tests. The last time I checked it would cost $2200 to set up the first year and then there would be an annual subscription fee. Right now we buy the tests at $3 each. There are times when I wish that I owned stock in Renaissance Learning!