Sometimes you need to just throw things away. In my profession, this really goes with the territory. I have spent countless times agonizing over if this or that minutiae is really going to be historically relevant. In today's chores, it was my own minutiae that eventually getting the axe: little notes to myself on projects, reference, cataloging, and the like. Moments like that I need to remember that only about 10% of what we create is worth keeping, at least most of the time.
The easy part of this purge was reviewing my tech books. The offending objects dated back to the early to mid 1990s. I am pretty certain that an Access book for dummies from that time will not be helpful. I would be looking for online tutorials before I opened this kind of book. Now I have more room on my shelves for the rest of my reference books.
So let me assure you all: you can't keep everything.
- the obsolete tech- check out that floppy disk!
Weeding a library is like weeding a garden, it lets the good stuff shine through!
Yeah!
Posted by: Mary Kelly | August 31, 2009 at 06:07 PM
Yes- it is very much like weeding a garden. Thanks.
Posted by: Jessica | September 02, 2009 at 10:04 AM