 The Ray Howard Library is making some changes. In order to make space, we are downsizing our print collection. We are weeding religion and philosophy of religion, medical and dental, psychology, engineering, cookbooks, gardening, film, and literature, including novels, poetry, essays, and plays. In the process of opening every book and looking at the youth statistics, we learned that parts of our collection is very old. Pages are brown and burned. And they are rarely, if at all, checked out. Once we weed the older items, the gems will shine. Over the last three years, we bulked up our online collection to include about 145,000 e-books, a much larger online periodicals collection, and a robust online encyclopedia collection. At the same time, we have heard from our students that they prefer print. Many studies bear this out. We also hear our instructional faculty noting students' lack of engagement with their textbooks. Many faculty in Washington State community colleges are getting trained in reading apprenticeship in order to increase student engagement in reading discipline-specific texts. Here's how we are responding to this changing environment. First, we will replenish our print collection in this smaller footprint in the library with new attractive texts in a broad and thin collection that will encourage students to experiment with reading. Once hooked, we can encourage students to move to our deeper, more robust online collection. Second, we will showcase parts of our new collection as we rebuild, including a new recreational reading collection and a first year experience collection. We will continue to run the pilot textbook collection, although from a smaller budget, and see what these data tell us. It's an emotional undertaking to weed so many books at one time. We look forward to partnering with instructional faculty to rebuild our print collection in order to create new opportunities for building reading into how our community learns. During summer, please visit our temporary digs in the pub fishbowl, room 9203. See the library website for hours or email library at shoreline.edu with your questions.