Honest injun, librarians are told from library school on that "weeding works!" improving circulation and generally making everything rosy. This despite the tremendous losses that libraries have taken in usage over the past thirty years. I have admin people who honestly believe that library patrons want to see shelves with at least ten empty inches on the end.

If you don't like to see books being weeded out of your local collection, TELL THE ADMINISTRATORS of the library and don't take the "egregious examples" excuses that they give you. Remind them that part of the reason you are willing to support library funding is the role of a library as a repository of our past and not just a doler out of best sellers.

*sigh* sorry. my soapbox is giving me splinters again...