Weeding really gets under way this week. Oh joy.

Computing and math areas this year for me. Apparently math was looked at four years ago and lots marked for removal.

But one of the biggest differences with this job and TheOldPlace is that academics have a say in what's weeded (or not). Apparently a huge amount of the math material was then put back on the shelves - which is why the shelves look so tired and jaded with all the old material. Not very inviting; although I appreciate that mathematics doesn't go out of date quite as fast as the computing stock!

So we'll see what happens this time round. I've already got one list of 'not used in 10 years' items marked by a lecturer with ticks to say 'don't weed this'. Has she actually *looked* at some of these volumes?