Saturday November 23, 2024, the Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes media library (Ille-et-Vilaine) is organizing a sale of reformed books during its opening hours. It is open to all, no need to be a member,
invites Lénaïck Rolland, the manager of the media library.
Visitors will pay €1 per book and €0.50 for three magazines. All types of books will be on sale: from books for toddlers to adult novels, including documentaries and comics. DVDs and board games are not affected. The money collected during the event will be donated to an association.
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“We remove damaged books from our collections”
The proposed works are books that we weeded during the year”,
explains Lénaïck Rolland. Weeding a book? It's not gardening, but librarian jargon. Basically, this means that we remove from our collections all books that are damaged, worn, dated or that have not been released for five years, roughly speaking. If we don't weed, there will inevitably come a time when there is no more space and these books take up space for nothing.
she explains.
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Weeding is not necessarily the most pleasant time for librarians and volunteers. This ant work takes a lot of time. It's a lot of research work, because we don't want to remove books that may be of interest
. To help them in this mission, the media library team has a method, called the “ioupi” method, an acronym for incorrect, ordinary, worn, expired, inadequate.
Saturday November 23, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., at the Le Relais des voyageurs media library, 14, place de la Mairie, in Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes.
