For a collection to remain useful and relevant to the students, faculty, and staff of MICA, the library’s collections need to be carefully looked at to remove items no longer appropriate to the collection. To keep the collection to be useful, we must make sure it contains up-to-date information.

The items may be withdrawn periodically from the collection: because they are

• obsolete (e.g. directories older than the current year)
• superseded by later editions
• out-of-date contents
• incomplete files of unindexed journals
• unnecessary duplicates (as determined by usage statistics or other factors)
• not circulated for a period of time to be determined by the Library Director in consultation with the Circulation Manager (this may vary from section to section in the library holdings)
• worn-out or damaged (including extensive highlighting and pencil/pen marks)
• in a foreign language
• part of an incomplete multi-volume set
• inappropriate to the curricular goals of the college

Because of the importance of visual materials to studio practice, illustrated materials are generally not withdrawn except for reasons of physical deterioration or because they contain only black and white or sepia images where color images are available elsewhere.