Comment by tingletech
7 days ago
Weeding (the library term of art for selecting works for deacquisition) is a very import part of collection management. It's actually regionally and nationally coordinated so the interlibary loan network does not throw away the last copies.
https://cdlib.org/west/ https://papr.crl.edu https://eastlibraries.org
You're fortunate if that's the case for where you live.
In the UK weeding is at the discretion of the Branch Librarian. Books I checked out 15 years ago have now vanished from the system.
UK has a shared print program
http://ukpbc.uk