Weeding Project

I recently completed my weeding / replacement project and it took much more work than I thought it would. Librarians really have their work cut out for them. The weeding part is not really the difficult part, it's really just tedious and time consuming. However, the challenge lies in finding materials to replace the old ones with. It seems as though everyone has a different opinion on these new books sometimes. You kind of have to make the call based on the reviews, or at least that's what I relied heavily on. It was also a little disheartening; I felt like I made the wrong choices, because I had a difficult time finding the books that I chose as replacements in local public libraries. I tried, though, to pick books on similar topics (I chose the biography section so it wasn't that difficult). However, the question that was always lurking in the back of my mind was, "if this book wasn't circulated enough to be kept, is it really worth it to purchase another one on the same topic?" Also I wondered if that person who was the topic of the discarded book was historically significant enough to be kept in the library. It seems to me that librarians really need to be a jack of all trades because their job requires that they know a little about a lot of topics and subjects (or a lot about a lot). It is really a huge responsibility to keep the library up to date and to purchase the best materials to keep the patrons interested in coming back.