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Weed Short Stories?
How
popular are the short stories in your collection? Are they
used only when required by classroom assignments? Maybe
weeding out-of-date titles and adding some new high interest
titles will tempt some students to browse and read this
wonderful genre without that assignment in hand.
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
If
your collection groups short stories in a separate location
such as 'SC,' your review of titles should be concentrated
there. However, you may also have some short stories in
the fiction shelves or in the 800s according to the nation
of origin -- locate those by searching 'short stories' in
your database or catalog.
Finally, review the AV collection -- if you still have some
deadly old filmstrips on this topic, weed and replace with
a newer format!
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
Always
be aware that any 'indexed' collection of short stories
has 'immunity' from weeding unless it is in terrible physical
condition! Never incur the wrath of the English teacher
by discarding a source unless all stories are available
in other editions. If in doubt, check with your teachers
before discarding.
What you should be targeting in weeding short stories are
those collections aimed at leisure reading by students.
Anything on the topics of hobbies, humor, special interests,
dating, growing up, or school life should be carefully reviewed
to see if it is of any interest to today's students. If
the book was published over 10 years ago, the answer is
probably no.
Other titles to review are those short story collections
with a national, ethnic, or gender focus. Look for inaccurate
or misleading information, bias, or insensitive portrayals.
Replace them with more current titles or do without.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- 40
best stories from Mademoiselle, 1935-1960, 1960. LCCN 60005966
- Action
stories of yesterday and today, 1971.
- Adventure
stories for boys, 1967.
- African
short stories : a collection of contemporary African writing,
1970. LCCN 70109450
- All
kinds of courage : stories about boys and girls of yesterday
and today, 1962. LCCN 62015900
- American
boy adventure stories, 1946. LCCN 46-7628
- American
Girl book of horse stories, 1963. LCCN 6318285
- American
girl favorite stories, 1950. LCCN 50008892
- The
American Indian in short fiction : an annotated bibliography,
1979. LCCN 79020158
- American
Negro short stories, 1966. LCCN 66023863
- American
short stories since 1945, 1968.
- American
short stories, 1820 to the present, 1964. LCCN 64023299
- Another
chance : and other modern stories, 1977.
- Anywhere,
anywhen : stories of tomorrow, 1976. LCCN 76005485
- Approaching
oblivion : road signs on the treadmill toward tomorrow :
eleven uncollected stories, 1974. LCCN 75309113
- Behind
the wheel : stories of cars on road and track, 1964. LCCN
64017610
- Born
loser and other exciting sport stories, 1977.
-
Boy Scout stories, 1964.
- Boys
are boys : stories from around the world, 1969. LCCN 71077454
- The
Boys' Life book of baseball stories, 1964. LCCN 63-7833
- The
Boys' Life book of sport stories, 1965.
-
The boys' second book of great detective stories, 1940.
LCCN 40007099
- Brothers
and sisters : modern stories by Black Americans, 1970. LCCN
76102961
- Canadian
short stories, 1960. LCCN 60004671
- Chucklebait
: funny stories for everyone, 1966.
- Contemporary
Chinese stories, 1968. LCCN 69014137
- Contemporary
Latin American short stories, 1974. LCCN 74083108
- Contemporary
Polish short stories, 1960. LCCN 64055225
- The
development of the American short story [filmstrip], 1960.
- Doctor's
choice : sixteen stories about doctors and medicine selected
by famous physicians, 1957. LCCN 57-6513
- Every
boy's book of outer space stories, 1960. LCCN 60013260
- Every
girl's adventure stories, 1955. LCCN 55006989
- Favorite
doctor stories, fact and fiction, 1963. LCCN 63008496
- Favorite
stories old and new, 1955.
- Feminine
plural : stories by women about growing up, 1972. LCCN 76187798
- Getting
the most out of life : an anthology from the Reader’s
Digest, 1946. LCCN 46004442
- Girls,
girls, girls : stories of love, courage and the quest for
happiness, 1957. LCCN 56-7435
- How
we live : contemporary life in contemporary fiction, 1968.
LCCN 68011266
- In
Bikole : eight modern stories about life in a West African
village, 1978. LCCN 78003271
- In
the looking glass twenty-one modern short stories by women,
1977. LCCN 76048851
- Introduction
to American short stories [filmstrip], 1976.
- It's
a woman's world, a collection of stories from Harper's Bazaar,
1944. LCCN 44002899
- Julie
Eisenhower's favorite stories, 1974. LCCN 74-084357
- Love
comes riding, stories of romance and adventure for girls,
1929. LCCN 29024079
- Modern
Arabic short stories, 1967. LCCN 67087750
- New
voices : contemporary Soviet short stories, 1966. LCCN 66011881
- The
other side of tomorrow; original science fiction stories
about young people of the future, 1973. LCCN 73003046
- Rx
for tomorrow : tales of science fiction, fantasy, and medicine,
1971. LCCN 73147278
- Schools
are people : an anthology of stories highlighting the human
drama of teaching and learning, 1971. LCCN 70150904
- Sometimes
magic : a collection of outstanding stories for the teenage
girl, 1966. LCCN 66016008
- Stories
boys like, 1965. LCCN 65021209
- Stories
for fun and adventure : a collection for all boys and girls
who love good stories, 1961. LCCN 61011831
- Stories
of school and college life : September to June, 1942. LCCN
42003942
- Stories
of the modern South, 1978.
- Teenage
humorous stories, 1957. LCCN 57008907
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