Session 6 - Additional Resources

These articles and Web sites are not part of your required reading for class.  They are here for reference help in your discussion questions and your job.

• Howell, Deborah, "Accurate But Not the Whole Story," Washington Post (January 28, 2007): B6.  The Ombudsman for the Washington Post explains the missing information in the orginal Washington Post article.  NOTE: The article also discusses Presidential candidate John Edwards' Georgetown house first and the information about weeding at the library is half-way down the article.
• Miller, John J., "Checked Out," Opinion Jounal/Wall Street Journal (January 3, 2007).  An online opinion piece that supports the original Washington Post article.
• Rein, Lisa, "Hello Grisham -- So Long Hemingway?" Washington Post (January 2, 2007): A1.  The original article that started the firestorm about weeding materials at the Fairfax County Library system.
• Collection Development and Maintenance links from the Library Service Areas' Web site.
• Library Journal's Web site's has collection development articles.