Collection assessment, (counseling): Counseling

General guidelines for Counseling collection assessment:

Consider removal if:

• 5 (years of age)/3 (years since most recent use)/MUSTIE guidelines

• This broad category includes drug and alcohol education, social problems and issues, true crime and criminology, and other social welfare issues.

• Titles that deal with popular social issues should be weeded based on age (copyright) and popularity. Watch for social welfare topics that are changing rapidly, such as socialized medicine and end-of-life decisions, environmental issues, and dealing with addictions. Handbooks and guides that deal with interactions with people with disabilities, surviving cancer and other major illnesses, and long-term care needs should be scrutinized for outdated terminology and descriptors, as well as to ensure that treatment and long-term care options are current. Discard memoirs when interest in the person or
  subject wanes. (Crew, 2012, p. 55).

What we need from you!

• View spreadsheet below and note any titles especially for removal, replacement, or preservation.

• Use Feedback form to send titles and feedback to the librarians.