Collection assessment, (history): History

General guidelines for History collection assessment:

Consider removal if:

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

• Consider demand, accuracy of facts, and fairness of interpretation when reviewing histories. Carefully review histories of countries where major political and geographical changes have occurred. Discard older histories that don’t reflect the unification of Germany or Vietnam or the break-up of the Soviet Union, for example.

• Consider discarding personal narratives and war memoirs of World War II, the Korean Conflict, and the Vietnam War in favor of broader histories of these conflicts, unless the author is a local person, or the book is cited in a bibliography as having an outstanding style or insight.

• Discard dated viewpoints (e.g., the McCarthy Era "World Communist Conspiracy" theory of modern history).

• Retain books that collect primary documents or include archival photographs unless the reproductions are of poor quality. (Crew, 2012, p. 64).

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

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