<div dir="ltr">We follow the same Collection Development policies for memorial materials as we do regular items. We used to try and call the family and see if they wanted the book before we withdrew it. We now encourage memorials to be something other than a book, as eventually almost all books will leave.<div>Good luck</div><div>Jeff</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 1:12 PM Jessica Williams via OPLINLIST <<a href="mailto:oplinlist@lists.oplin.org">oplinlist@lists.oplin.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg4575949535989793758">
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What are your policies (if you have any) on how and when to weed memorial items? We don't have a specific written or unwritten rule here, other than to potentially give it a little weight in favor of keeping it, if it is a memorial. However, we are interested
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</div></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Lucida Handwriting""><font size="4"><b>Jeffrey
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