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Weed Photography?
Remember
that camera you were using for family photos ten years
ago? Compare that to the digital camera you are using
today. Big change, right?  If
your library media collection titles on photography have
not changed in the last ten or twenty years, the students
are not getting what they need to maintain an interest
and answer their questions in this subject area.
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
Review general photography titles at 770 (photography, photographs,
computer art). Also check the remaining 770s, from 771 (techniques,
procedures, apparatus, equipment, materials) for works on
specific camera types to 779 (photographs). The biography
section should be checked for those titles not classed in
the 770s. Review the reference and AV collections also.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
Because of the rapid changes in consumer level cameras in
recent years, review carefully any title over ten years
old. Most students are using and more interested in digital
cameras and digital video techniques today compared to 35mm
and videotape based models including those "instant"
Polaroids, early underwater cameras, or pinhole cameras.
You will want to keep historical accounts of older cameras
and their inventors (George Eastman and Edwin Land for example),
but you do not need titles that are equipment and selection
guides to outdated cameras.  Darkroom
methods and techniques probably also belong in photography
history books instead of guides, although photography requiring
a darkroom may be a hobby for some of your students and
their parents. Keep newer books on the basics for them.
Careers in photography and titles about photography as a
business must be current to be relevant today. You can and
should keep older titles on the works of famous photographers
unless their condition warrants their updating or replacement.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- 101
experiments in photography, 1969.
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Advanced black & white printing [videorecording], 1978.
- All
about 35mm photography : a complete guide to choosing and
using 35mm cameras and equipment, 1979.
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All-in-one movie book : the complete guide to super 8, 1972.
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Basic photography : a step-by-step introduction to camera
equipment, exposures, composition, developing, printing,
finishing, flash techniques, 1977.
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Beginner's guide to darkroom techniques, 1976.
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Beginning underwater photography, 1975.
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The complete beginner's guide to photography, 1979.
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The darkroom handbook : a complete guide to the best design,
construction, and equipment, 1979.
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Electronic flash photography : a complete guide to the best
equipment and creative techniques, 1980.
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Freelance photography : advice from the pros, 1979.
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 The
history of photography, from 1839 to the present day, 1971.
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How to make good pictures : an entertaining authoritative
handbook for everyone who takes pictures, 1972.
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How to take better Polaroid pictures, 1975.
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Modern photographic techniques, 1976.
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Money-making photography, 1980.
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Photo fun : an idea book for shutterbugs, 1973.
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Photo reports make it happen [videorecording], 1978.
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Photographic tricks simplified : a modern photo guide, 1974.
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Photography : how to develop film [slide], 1978.
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Planning and producing slide programs, 1978.
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The student journalist and creative photography, 1976.
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Traveling with your camera : creative 35 mm photography,
1965.
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Trick photography : crazy things you can do with camera,
1980.
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Your future in photography, 1970.
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