User:Raymond mwijage

(SLADS- BAGAMOYO)

RESEARCH PROPOSAL TITLE: An assessment on the challenges facing weeding exercise in public libraries. A case study: Tanzania Library Service Board (TLSB), Dar es Salaam. [[File:WEEDING EXERCISE IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES|thumbnail|CLEAN YOUR LIBRARY

PREPARED BY: RAYMOND MWIJAGE REG.NO. D/2013/1501. ©29/12/2014

1.0 Introduction 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY. According to Prytherch.R. (2003), library is a collection of books and other literary materials kept for reading, studying and consultation. Also Aina.L.O. (2003), Define public library as a library that is accessible by the general public and is generally funds from public sources. Public library can be differentiated from other type of libraries because they function to serve the needs of diverse service population including children, student, professionals and the elderly. Public libraries serve the public at large, including those who are also served by other types of libraries; they are used primarily by members of the local community in which they are constructed and secondarily by members in communities in immediately outlying areas. The members of those communities are the service population of public libraries and their needs affect the design and planning of public library spaces. For example, if a community has a large population of young children, which can result from a community with a high-quality elementary school system, the public library design must address the needs of children and how they use libraries, i.e., story a-telling spaces, books within easy reach for children, nap areas, etc. Whereas, a public library that serves the needs of a community with a large population of elderly people will included design criteria to meet their needs, i.e., easy access into the building, adequate lighting, large-print media public libraries serve the public at large, including those who are also served by other types of libraries, they are used primarily by members of the local community in which they are constructed and secondarily by members in communities in immediately outlying areas. Weeding exercise is the practice of systematically examining and evaluating materials already in one of the library’s collections. In weeding, the selected stuff determines whether an individual item should be retained, rebound or withdrawn unwanted material.

According to Urrizola.L. (1992), weeding started some years back. For example, by 427AD the library at Alexandria decided to contract out its annual weeding project to vandal hordes who were the lowest bidder. This shows that weeding has been practiced for a long time. Stanley. J. (2006), say that Weeding is the important and constructive process of clearing library media center collection of materials that have outlived their usefulness. This team come from gardening and means the same thing –eliminating the unsuitable or unwanted. It is carefully planned procedure that is as important as selecting and acquiring new quality materials, printed and non- printed. Weeding should be done on a regular, continuous basis. Materials that fall into the following categories should be withdrawn;- a)	Materials which contain outdated information. b)	Superseded edition. c)	Worn or defaced items d)	Materials that is no longer timely. e)	Material that no longer circulated. Common weeding problems or challenges in public libraries; a)	The staff does not understand the weeding process and fears that the library won’t have the materials. b)	Another fear that librarians have is that they might weed a book that has considerable value because it is rare. The first thing to remember when considering this problem is that rare books have value because they are rare. The chance of finding such book in a small library is therefore remote. c)	The staff may be asked what section should be weeded first, so that they can see the effect of weeding on a section that is least likely to cause the problem they fear. Weeding of unwanted library materials, help the public libraries to contain current materials. Collection development refer to an ongoing plan not only to weed, but to locate, select, acquire, organize, and make available the resources that your user’s need.

The above definition shows that collection development including weeding or deselecting  exercise. That location does not necessarily means a trash can, but it could be a secondary storage site, another library or institution or book sale. It does not matter what kind of secondary site is chosen for the housing of material that is no longer immediately accessible to users.

Johnson.L.E (2003), Show that weeding a library is like weeding a garden; one looks over everything and carefully selects those things which need to be removed. In a library, weeding is a shelf- by- shelf and book- by -book review and withdrawal of the certain books from the library’s collection. If fund are provided every year, acquisition are made and hence the collection grow. The problem come that, if public libraries haven’t enough fund, weeding exercise will become more difficult to be conducted in public libraries. Kelly Library, (2006).

Johnson.L.E. (2003), Explains that the collection ages if the librarians do not weed. The collection gets small if weeding exercise take place or conducted in public libraries, the collection become small because some other unwanted materials will be removed and library remain with up-to-dated materials only. Small but high quality collection is infinitely better.

Dilerco and Gottlieb. (1993), Explain that Route surveyed public and academic libraries to find out whether they practice weeding or not, if is not which challenges facing public libraries in weeding exercise, how many books they sent to storage and how many books they discarded, but his main purpose was to determine the extent to which libraries use additional within a – library space (example, various shelving techniques, storage area and annexes) to cope with weeded materials. Much has been written about policies for weeding materials, the evaluation of collections paying special attention to age and use, the criteria’s used for weeding, the benefits of weeding and so on. For example, Engel dinger (1986) asked a question about the frequency of weeding reference materials, the reason for weeding, and the number of volumes weeded annually and the percentage of reference volumes transferred to calculating stock or discarded. Dilerco and Gottliet. (1993), sum up by expressing that, rarer are surveys about how and why libraries whether public or academic libraries weed. Very little has been written about weeding library collection in Tanzania. That’s why there a need to conduct this study to find out whether public libraries in Tanzania conduct weeding or not. In this case Fidishun.B. (2006) reveals that, “Failure to weed irrelevant materials can weaken the strength of the collection; unwedded collections look ugly and user including the library staff will always face problems in locating the right materials. 1.3 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM: Some public libraries seem that they don’t understand how to conduct weeding exercise for their library collection, and other they don’t know or understand the importance of weeding their library collection. The researcher will also suggest the possible measure to be taken so as to improve and encourage weeding exercise in public libraries. Most of public libraries in the country do not have any knowledge on how to conduct weeding practice or exercise, sometimes the reason behind is that     weeding exercise is cost and some library staff fair to weed their collection suspecting that their library can remain with few collection or library materials or to weed materials which is needed by other information users. Weeding is the periodic and continual evaluation of your library resources with the goal of removing obsolete, damage, and rarely used library materials. Weeding ensure that your library’s material are useful, attractive, and accessible to your patrons. Every library’s print collection is limited by space available, and collection must change over time to reflect changes in the community and in the libraries goals. It’s very important to make proper weeding exercise in order to remove all unwanted materials  in order to make   our library more up-to-dated and relevant to users. However with scare resources which has resulted in poor collection development, weeding of library information resources has became a challenge. Therefore this study aims at investigating the challenges facing weeding of library materials in public libraries.

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH 1.3.1 GENERAL OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH The general objective of the research is to investigate the challenge facing weeding of library materials to any public libraries, a case study of Tanzania Library service board (TLSB), Dar es Salaam.

1.3.2 SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES The specific objectives of the research are:- 1)	To asses librarian skills in weeding exercise. 2)	To assess the use and implementation of library weeding policy. 3)	To examine the challenges facing the weeding exercise. 4)	To examine development methods used in the library understudy. 5)	To suggest measures to overcome challenges in weeding exercise.

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS /HYPOTHESIS The study is guided by the following hypothesis; (i)	To what extent is Tanzania Library Service (Board TLSB) Library stuff skilled in weeding exercise? (ii)	Does Tanzania Library service board (TLSB), Dar es Salaam have some policies of weeding library materials? (iii)	What are the challenges facing weeding practice in Tanzania Service Board (TLSB) Dar es Salaam?

(iv)	What is weeding initiatives have been taken at Tanzania Library service board, Dar es Salaam. (v)	To what measure can be taken to overcome the challenges of weeding exercise? 1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROBLEM The finding of this research is result into libraries to find the possible measures of solving problems which hinder the weeding exercise of library collections. Researchers can suggest the possible solution to avoid challenges in weeding exercise The study encourages information managers to advice the Government to allocate funds so as to improve the service of the library, this help a library stuff to purchase current library materials to avoid the challenges in removing of unwanted materials in library. To provide theoretical knowledge on library management information especially concerning with weeding practice in Tanzania library service board (TLSB) Dar es salaam library collection and evaluation of library materials to overcome challenges that’s can occur during weeding exercise. The finding of research also provide a light towards understanding challenges in weeding exercise in public libraries and recommendation s made in this help the organization, information center students, researcher and library stuff to keep up to date library materials in public library which finally maximize challenges during weeding exercise, that help public library users to get up to dated materials. The researcher will build an encouragement to other researcher to write more about the challenges in weeding exercise to improve the quality of services provision of information which is more up-to-dated through using computerized library system .Computerized system help to avoid the problems in weeding exercise The evaluation may provide the researcher with experience in research understandings. That’s help the researchers to discover the new techniques on how to solve the problems in weeding of library materials.

1.6 Scope of the study The study will focus and concentrate on the challenges facing public libraries during weeding exercise and the study shall cover only one public library which is Tanzania Library Service Board (TLSB) situated in Dar es salaam.

1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY During conducting the study, there some limitations which are expected to occur as follow:- Time; The researcher expects to face the problem, because the time which located is not enough to cover the selected population so as to get appropriate data, in order to get appropriate data about a study, enough time must be located. Researching on challenges in weeding of library materials need enough time. Shortage of fund; The researcher needs enough funds to meet several expenses including stationeries and sometime air time to make appointments with respondents, all these need enough money. Reluctance of the staff and users; Some librarians and other staff members are not willingly in answering the question that researchers will present to them or for engage in fully participating in the process of data collection. This study will be limited to the less cooperation between librarian and researcher, library are responsible for the evaluation and making policy for weeding of library materials or collection, but the library staff some time fail to provide detailed data about the problem. Data can be collected by using different methods like interviewing, questionnaires and direct observation.

1.8 KEY TERMS AND DEFINITION TLSB-Tanzania Library service board.

ICT- Information and Communication Technology.

CREW- Continuous Review Evaluation and Weeding.

MUSTIE-   Abbreviation that stands for: - M= Misleading --factually inaccurate. U= ugly –worn beyond mending or rebinding. S= Superseded--by a new edition by a much better book on the on the subject. T=Trivial—of no discernible literary or scientific merit. I=Irrelevant to the needs and the interests of the library’s community E=Elsewhere –the material is easily obtainable from another library.

1.9 DEFINITIONS; Library is an organized collection of information resources made accessible to a defined community for reference or borrowing. It provides physical or digital access to materials, and may be a physical building or room, or a virtual space, or both. Weeding is the process of removing books and other material from your collection that normally fall under the MUSTIE. Weeding is defined as the ongoing process of removing resources from the collection. Weeding practice Weeding practice is a method, procedure, process or rules used in weeding; as asset of these regarded as standard. In this study weeding practice referred to as the way in which library materials are removed from the collection continuously. Weeding barrier There many reasons that hinder weeding exercise, these include lock of enough fund, lock of polices on weeding exercise ,shortage of time to conduct weeding exercise, weeded materials may be needed in the future; book are sacred objective. Wenger.H. (2011). In this study, weeding barriers may be defined as factors or challenges hinder the weeding of library materials or library collection. Collection development In this study collection refer to the process of planning and building a useful and balanced collection of library materials, based on an ongoing assessment of the information needs of the library’s clientele and analysis of usage. Collection development includes the formulation of criteria’s and the replacement of lost and damaged items as well as routine selection and de-selection or weeding decision. CONCLUTION: This chapter contain the main topic of the research (statement of the problem), it show picture on how researcher will conduct her researcher and its solution about challenges facing weeding exercise in public libraries.

CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Introduction According to Urrizola.L. (1999), weeding started some years back. For example, by 427AD the library at Alexandria decided to contract out its annual weeding project to vandal hordes who were the lowest bidder. This shows that weeding has been practiced for a long time. This chapter presents the literature review, reflecting the specific objectives of this study. The literature review is organized around broad themes such as the extent of weeding practice, availability of written weeding policies, factors militating against weeding in public libraries in developed and developing countries and views of different library stakeholders on weeding. The following are the public and academic libraries in the world which were eventually narrowed down to public libraries in Tanzania, some of books reviewed include historical documents about weeding of the 1980s and 1990s including journals and articles from the different website. 2.2 Literature review Weeding According to Dickson. G. (2005), weeding is an ongoing process of removing resources from the collection. What is also ongoing, unfortunately, is the recurring outcry from the public over weeded65resouses. Vision of headlines such as ‘’Librarian Trashes precious books’’ and score of parent protestors guarding school dumpsters can turn even the most determined library media specialist into an equally determined weeding procrastinator.

2.3 Weeding Policy According to Magrill. L.and Hickey. T. (1994), Policy statements give guidance to administrators and to the directors of the organization the library serves. They are written as guidelines and should be stated in broad terms that are neither too restrictive nor too permissive. Their purpose is not exact delineation but to provide signposts toward the accomplishment of a miscellany of stated goals, whether these are for such variables as in-service training of staff or building on the strengths of the collection. Weeding is an integral part of the collection development process. Through periodic weeding, obsolescent, damaged, ephemeral materials which are no longer in scope or used are identified and withdrawn. Weeding helps to keep the collection update in areas where newer material is needed when older editions have been removed, to ensure that the collection remains responsive to the patrons' needs, and also to optimize the use of space. Materials weeded may be relegated, used for gifts and exchange, or discarded, and the decision is discretionary. The following factors are generally considered in the weeding of library materials. •	Past usage data •	Value for historical research •	Last copy with archival value •	Accuracy & timeliness of information •	Physical condition •	Availability of similar materials within the community library •	The way forward in this area would be first to create policies on weeding. Without a Policy any library management will always find itself lacking the mandate to administer Weeding programmes and on collision course with different interest groups in the University.

A weeding policy will formalize the recognition of the need for weeding Among all the parties concerned, establish criteria methodology and procedure to be used in the weeding exercise and above all, it will establish the final authority for weeding decisions. Berthlot. J. (2008), say that the weeding policy could be in a part of selection policy. Weeding is like selection of library materials, requires a clearly written policy to help librarian make decision about weeding. 2.4 Challenges in weeding exercise The library collection is not a static collection and must remain fluid as the goals and information needs of NOAA staff and library users change. Changes to the policy and to the collection should always consider the needs of users. It is the responsibility of NOAA Seattle Library to be cognizant of changes to agency goals and user needs, and modify the policy and collection to be consistent with those needs. The ability of the Library to ensure consistency with user needs remains one that is limited to restrictions by budget, staffing, and time. NOAA library staff will ensure that resources are maximized in order to provide the best library services available to its users.

As was already stated, weeding can be one of the more difficult collection development processes. In the final analysis whether or not a book should be weeded is always a judgment call. Yet the experience of most librarians is that attractive, smaller new collections will generally circulate better than larger, dilapidated and old collections. Thus, libraries and their governing authorities sometimes are pulled between the desire to keep materials, "just in case someone needs them," and the desire to have an attractive and useful collection. This dichotomy leads to some of the problems that people have when weeding.

Librarian face different challenges in weeding their collection and at same time librarians fear the followings to occur; Procrastination, staff resistance, negative reaction of users and administration, reluctance to admit selection mistakes, time consuming, fear of weeding materials that’s needed by users, Cost, Sacred, quality of books, FEAR ″Anything is better than nothing″

2.5 Development methods used in the library understudy. According to Davidson. A. (2003), Library materials are acquired through purchase, gifts, or depository programs. Materials are purchased utilizing appropriate vendors and publishers by firm orders, approval plans, standing orders, and/or subscriptions. The Libraries strive to facilitate timely purchase of materials, greater efficiency, and closer collaboration between the librarians and teaching faculty in building the collections and in expending the Library Resources Fund.

Faculty and Branch Librarians with the help of Selectors will assume responsibility in selecting relevant library materials for purchase either through approval plans or individual title selection by firm orders. While approval plans are used to develop and maintain core collections, faculty's participation in making individual title selection in more specialized areas is strongly encouraged and deemed essential in developing research collections. The Libraries offers in exchange library materials that are duplicates or out of scope, as well as selected publications of the Libraries. Collection Development Librarian is responsible for making decision for sending the donations to appropriate exchange partners.

Gifts are evaluated against the same criteria as purchased materials as stated in the collection development policy. Particular attention will be given to: •	Relevance to current curriculum and research of the University -- Generally, scholarly works should be of academic nature in fields within the scope of the University's curriculum and research. •	Currency of the materials -- Works should be published within 4 years except for Chinese, rare and special items, e.g. manuscripts or books about Hong Kong. Outdated reference materials or school textbooks are not accepted. •	Physical condition of the materials -- Items should generally be in good physical condition, except for Chinese, rare and special items. •	Serial publications -- Serial donations will be accepted only if they fill specific gaps in the collection or to extend the held run of current subscriptions. For the gifts of new subscriptions, if arrangements have been made to have the donor continue to support the subscription for at least two more years, with the exception of special circumstances, e.g. the need for comprehensive collection of Hong Kong materials including Hong Kong serials. •	Format -- Items of a format which is no longer supported by current equipment in the libraries are not accepted. For example, LPs, VHS, U-matic or Beta video tapes, film reels, film strips, 12" laser disks, 5.25" floppy disks, software on operating system below Windows2000, and micro cards. The usefulness of any collection can be determined by looking at how well the library satisfies its patron needs. According to Okoro.D. (1985), an elegant library building is a white elephant unless it houses materials appropriate for the users, a sophisticated system for information retrieval is pointless if it affords access to the wrong documents, “an impressive structure of staff management is a luxury unless it organizes staff in a way which facilitates the library’s main purpose.” These are all reminders of the importance of evaluating a library’s collection. 2.6: Measures to be taken to overcome challenges in weeding exercise According to Zabramans. T. (2001),The only measure that’s can be taken to solve different problems associated with weeding exercise is that,  librarians have been a major influence on arid are crucial to the evolution of library technician programs and are responsible for many of the changes in direction and development. As described earlier, librarians are in the majority on individual program advisory committees and usually teach librarianship courses in most programs. In the broader world of the profession, librarians, with some input from library technicians, have decided which roles are appropriate to various staff levels. Librarians have designed provincial and national program guidelines, suggested accreditation procedures, and spearheaded certification attempts, all of which have an impact on curriculum. While library technician associations have been consulted or included, librarians are always in the majority on these committees. Idaho. C. (2009), say that, ideally, the entire library should be weeded every year, but time and personnel constraints may make this difficult. Tiller.E. (2008), explain that, the weeding of materials is a constant process that involves the entire library team. Jeffer.P (1998), explain that the weeding should be done on regular in order to overcome the challenges that’s can be occur when weeding in a long period of time, continuous basis. CONCLUTION This chapter provides the views of different scholars who wrote about weeding exercise in libraries weeding exercise, reason for weeding, steps to consider when weeding, and obstacles for weeding have been discussed Weeding a library’s collection can be a daunting task, particularly if some time has passed since all or part of the collection has been critically evaluated. The busy environment of a typical public and academic libraries only adds to the complexity of this task. Library staff sometimes finds it difficult simply to keep up with day –to-day operations, but maintaining an up to date and useful collection must be top priority for any librarian who desires to successfully fulfill the information needs of her community of users. One useful method of managing a large scale and massive weeding project is to follow a systematic series of steps such as that outline in the CREW Method. Boon.B. (1995), breaking the weeding process down into manageable parts will assist library staff to gain a sense of completion, while at the same time ensuring that professional collection development standard are met and maintained. The result will be a collection to be proud.

CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

3.0: INTRODUCTION According to Kothari.C.R. (2004), research methodology is the way to systematically solve the research problems. It may be understood as the science of studying how research is done scientifically. This chapter is all about the methods that will be used to collect data. In addition it explains the research design, area of study, sampling technique methods of data collection as well as data analysis technique. 3.1: RESEARCH DESIGN According to Kothari.C.R. (2004), Research design is the arrangement of condition for collection and analysis of data in a manner that aim to combine relevance to the research purpose with economy in procedure. Researcher will use a case study design in making or conducting a research. 3.2: Research type This study will use qualitative type of research in data collection. 3.2.1: Qualitative research is the approach usually associated with the social constructivist paradigm which emphasizes the socially constructed nature of reality. It is about recording, analyzing and attempting to uncover the deeper meaning and significance of human behavior and experience, including contradictory beliefs, behaviors and emotions. Researchers are interested in gaining a rich and complex understanding of people’s experience and not in obtaining information which can be generalized to other larger groups.

3.3: Area of Study The area of study will be at Tanzania Library service board (TLSB), Dar es Salaam Tanzania. The purpose of selecting this area (TLSB) is the familiarity of researcher with the study area and availability of library materials. 3.4: Research population According to Singth. K. (2007), research population is generally a large collection of individuals or objects that is the main focus of a scientific query. It is for the benefit of the population that researches are done. However, due to the large sizes of populations, researchers often cannot test every individual in the population because it is too expensive and time-consuming. This is the reason why researchers rely on sampling techniques. The population of study will include librarians and library user estimate 100 respondents total of population. This population will be selected because they are targeted group of this study expected to provide information. The researcher will use this method in order to obtain first hand information from the interviewee, since interviewee will provide data from personal understanding. This will involve library staff and library users. 3.5:  Sample size According to Kothari C.R. (2004), a sample simply refers to the subset of the whole population within the area of research study. This study will use twenty (30) respondents representing the whole population within the study area. Out of the said twenty (30) total respondents, fifteen (10) will be librarians representing whole librarians at Tanzania library service board (TLSB) and the rest (20) will be library users. 3.6: Sampling techniques According to Bartizan. P. (2008), sampling is the technique used to select a small group with a view of determining the characteristics of a large group. Advantage of sampling techniques is to save time when conducting a research, that’s help, a researcher to obtain different data or information in a specific time. The researcher will use simple random sampling techniques in order to give a chance to every respondent of being selected to participate in a research. Kothari (2005), state that simple random sampling provides equal chance to every member in the population to be selected to represent the whole population. Crossman. A. (2001) states that purposive sample, also commonly called a judgmental sample, is one that is selected based on the knowledge of a population and the purpose of the study. The subjects are selected because of some characteristic. Field researchers are often interested in studying extreme or deviant cases – that is, cases that don’t fit into regular patterns of attitudes and behaviors. By studying the deviant cases, researchers can often gain a better understanding of the more regular patterns of behavior. In this study simple random technique and purposive sampling will be used. 3.7: Data collection methods According to Aina. L. (2008), data collection sources into two approaches these are primary data and secondary data. Primary method will involve the collection of data fresh from the field while secondary methods will involves the use of data from another finding. The methods of collecting data that will be used by a researcher include both primary and secondary sources of information. Primary data is expected to be collected from respondent, while secondary data will be obtained from different documents such as reports, weeding policy papers etc. In the process of conducting the research, researcher will employ a number of methods which includes observation, interview, and questionnaire. 3.7.1 Observation Method. Kothari.R. (2004), Observation method is the data collection method where by researcher gather information by the way of hers own investigation without asking to respondents. The population of study will include librarians and library user estimate 100 respondents total of population. This population will be selected because they are targeted group of this study. The information obtained indicates on what is actually happening. The advantage of this method are eliminate subjectivity biasness, and also independent of respondents willingness to respond. 3.7.2 Interview method According Donna. J. and Linda. L. (2004), interview is a face to face interaction between a person who seeking for information and the person who some of merits of interview method is more information in greater depth is obtained. Interviewer by his own skills can overcome the resistance if any, of respondent if any as the interview method can be made yield an almost perfect sample of the general population and sample can be controlled more effectively as there arise no difficult of the missing returns, non response generally remains very low. 3.7.3 Questionnaire method Greiner.T.H. (2007), state that, questionnaire is a method in which is used to find answers of different questions by using a forms in which a respondent has to fill in himself. The questionnaires will be distributed to 60 respondents who fill in right answers on their own time and return questionnaires to the researcher. The questionnaires will be distributed to the librarian and students. This method has the advantage of being free from bias of the respondents, and also provides enough time for responding to questionnaires. 3.8: Research instruments. The method  of collecting data will be interview, direct observation, and questionnaire methods as the instrument of data collection during the study. 3.9: Data analysis Data collected will be coded and classified in order to get valid and accurate data. For this case, frequency table and computer programmed like MS excel or PSSP will be use in analyzing and presentation of data. 3.10: Research ethics The researcher will collects data from all people that are necessary to collect data from disregarding age, sex, race or religion. The researcher ensures the respondent that information collected will treated with confidential. This will help the researcher to get enough and relevant information from respondent.

Research work Plan/ schedule/ time frame. The research work will take six (6) weeks only due to the limitation of time.

ACTIVITIES 1ST Week 2nd week 3rd week 4th week 5th week 6thweek Reporting to the center observing the situation Typing questionnaires and distributing them to respondent

Collection of data for the field through questionnaires Data processing and interpretation ready for report drafting Preparation of the first draft report Submission of the report

RESEARCH BUDGET;

COST ELEMENT/UNIT COST ANALYSIS TOTAL Stationary cost Ream paper Stapler Speedo pen Pencil File 1@ 10,000 1@ 4,000 10@300=3000 5@100 =500 2@ 2000	19,500/= SECRETARIAL COST Typing Copy Binding

400,000/=

Transport and communication expenses 70,000/=

Meals allowance 8000shs×42days 294,000/=

Binding of the research proposal 16,000/=

Flash disk 4 GB 20,000/=

File for collected data from respondent 3@2000/=	   6,000/=

Miscellaneous expenses 30,000/=

Total		855,000/= QUESTIONNAIRES FOR LIBRARY USERS AND LIBRARY STAFF I am a diploma student at the school of library Archives and Documentation studies conducting a research on the challenges in weeding of library materials (removing unwanted materials from library collection). I would appreciate it if you could spare a bit of your time to fill in this questionnaires. The information provided will remain confidential. 1.	How many printed materials are there in your collection? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

2.	Do you have electronic materials in your collection? Yes No

3.	If answer to the above question is yes how many? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

4.	Do you get any problems in accessing /acquiring materials for the library collection? Yes No

5.	What is situation of TLSB library collection as regards weeding? (indicate your answer by using the scale provided). a)	Extremely good             b)	Very good c)	Fair                                   d)	Poor e)	Very poor                        6.	Are actions taking place regarding weeding the library materials? Please explain. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

7.	How many times weeding exercise conducted per year? a)	Continuously             b)	One time c)	Two times                  d)	Three time e)	Not done at all

8.	What factor/challenges discourage the weeding of library materials? a)	Time b)	Indecision in weeding local material c)	No money to replace weeded materials d)	Lock of weeding policy e)	Fear of losing library materials f)	Lack of storage available for weeded materials g)	Reluctance due to fear that materials might be needed for the future. h)	Other (please specify)……………………………………………………………………………………………. 9.	Do you believe that weeding library is very important? a)	Yes                            b)	No Briefly give the reason(s) for answer ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………………………… 10.	Does your library have weeding policies? a)	Yes       b)	No 11.	Does the information in the library satisfy your needs? a)	Yes b)	No 12.	What do you think librarians should do to update information materials in the library? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

BY RAYMOND MWIJAGE.

FROM BUKOBA TANZANIA