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Evangeliste, a former librarian who runs a marketing and design company that works with nonprofit companies, and Furlong, an access and technical services library director, outline a process for letting go of obsolete or less-useful programs in libraries. They use case studies of nine academic libraries in the US to demonstrate the process of planned abandonment grounded in assessment-based decision making. The case studies involve pay-per-view periodicals, moving to web-based services, eliminating physical and electronic reserve services, reference services, reinventing critical public services in response to budget cuts, student services, shifting to electronic resources through collaborative strategic planning, the major reconstruction of a public library technical services unit after a hurricane, and renovation, and end with interviews with librarians. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
