Several Peel District School Board students, parents and community members are concerned about a seemingly inconsistent approach to a new book weeding process intended to ensure school library books are inclusive, but that appears to have led some schools to remove thousands of books published in 2008 or earlier.

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    1 year ago

    The digitized version won’t be sitting on a shelf catching the eye of curious students though. Discoverability suffers significantly.

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      not to mention digital books are more accessible to kids who don’t need them: kids who have easy access to lots of connected digital devices.

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      Absolutely!

      This is my big hate for online stores in general, but books especially. I find browsablility far superior to searchability. Being searchable obviously has its place, as do recommendation systems, but nothing beats just looking around and discovering what you didn’t even know existed.