Developing extensive example of how deselection decisions are made (for accreditors).
Weeding stats since last triennial review (I feel sure that at least half of this was weeded by moi): Since June 2023- 15,650 + Summer 2025 - 1,749 (all me).
Events
Planning/Implementing more author chats for QBC:
(Screenshot of 2/19/2025 author presentation/QBC event↑)
Promoting/Implementing QBC chats among members:
Promoting Speaker Consortium authors as QBC events:
Leading several cross-stitch & friendship bracelet events:
Working outreach booths & participating in multiple Lavender Grad ceremonies:
Attending "Moving Forward Together: Women Educating and Inspiring Generations,” an International Women’s Day event at Saratoga College, CA, 2025.
Creating this following a QBC inquiry by a campus colleague:
Offering art contest, 2 semesters (1 entry, hung in 517):
Collab with fashion design department instructor↑
Vegetarian/Vegan cookbooks↓
↑Hoping to garner interest
Easter
Recommending: Deselect older↑ books, since newer↑ are available.
Sending lists as Don mentioned some sections were packed, example follows:
Recently Ordered Fashion/Apparel & Textile Design-Related Books:
1. Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
2. Draping for apparel design
3. Fashion Sketchbook
4. Professional sewing techniques for designers
5. Altering menswear: Classic tailoring techniques for menswear: a construction guide
6. Mending and Alterations Made Simple: A Complete Guide to Clothes Repair
7. The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
8. Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World:
9. Footwear materials and processes: Worn: Footwear, Attachment and the Affects of Wear
10. Designing with Textiles: DIY Fabric & Fiber Projects
11. Plastic technique for Jewelry
12. Modern Resin Jewellery: Over 50 inspiring easy-to-make projects
13. Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle
14. AN UNBROKEN THREAD: Celebrating 150 Years of the Royal School of Needlework
15. Essential Sashiko: A Dictionary of the 92 Most Popular Patterns (with Actual Size Templates)
16. Secrets of Spinning, Weaving, and Knitting in the Peruvian Highlands Bargello: 17 Modern Needlepoint Projects for You and Your Home
17. Anyone Can Crochet Amigurumi Animals
18. Weaving on a little loom: techniques, patterns, and projects for beginners:
19. Hand weaving: Weaving explorer: ingenious techniques, accessible tools & creative projects w yarn, paper, wire & more
20. Ultimate All-Around Stitch Dictionary: More Than 300 Stitch Patterns to Knit Every Way
21. Metalsmith Society’s Guide to Jewelry Making: Tips, Techniques & Tutorials For Soldering Silver, Stonesetting & Beyond
22. Hand Spinning: Essential Technical and Creative Skills
Tangentially Related (Recently Ordered):
1. The Crafty Chica Creates!: Latinx-Inspired DIY Projects with Spirit and Sparkle
2. From Petal to Pattern: Design Your Own Floral Patterns. Draw on Nature
3. Stained glass: Creative Cuts by Kerian- Moths, Mushrooms & Butterflies: Stained Glass Patterns
4. Drawing for Illustration
5. Painting: Foolproof Sketching & Painting Techniques for Beginners: For Pencil, Pen and Watercolors
6. GO With the Flow Painting
7. Plein Air Techniques for Artists: Principles and Methods for Painting in Natural Light
8. Creating with Ceramics: DIY Clay & Pottery Projects
9. Paper crafts: a maker's guide: 220+ photographs and illustrations
10. Art of Papercraft: Unique OneSheet Projects Using Origami, Weaving, Quilling, Pop-Up, & Other Inventive Techniques
11. Dark toys: surrealism and the culture of childhood
12. Designing a world for everyone: 30 years of inclusive design
13. Doodle Everything!: Learn to Draw with 400+ Easy, Adorable Designs
14. AphroChic: celebrating the legacy of the Black family home
15. Beginner's guide to hand building: functional and sculptural projects for the home potter
16. Cartooning Made Easy: Circle, Triangle, Square
17. Watercolour Lessons
18. Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy
19. More Is More Is More: Today's Maximalist Interiors
20. P. S. - We Made This: Super Fun Crafts That Grow Smarter + Happier Kids
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