Collections Deaccessioning

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Collections Deaccessioning

• March 2004

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Collections Deaccessioning

• Purpose - maintain a viable and coherent
  collection by removing items or collections when
  necessary
• What happens - metadata is removed from the DLESE
  discovery system
• Note - updated policy accepted by Steering Comm.

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Necessary deaccessioning to date (1)

• Link no longer functions
• DPC staff determines
• Resource creator contacted
• If link is not corrected in a reasonable time,
  metadata is removed
• Out of scope (low Earth system edu relevancy)
• Collections Comm reviews resources identified by
  DPC, AGI catalogers or DLESE Community
• If resource not relevant, metadata is removed

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Necessary deaccessioning to date (2)

• Collection builder requests removal from DLESE
• CB contacts DPC metadata specialists
• Entire collection is removed
• Metadata quality
• Metadata that is poorly written, has a
  significant number of bad characters, or has
  inappropriate information in required fields
• Individual metadata record is removed