Evaluation comments from Belinda's workshop participants:

Great job! Helped boost my confidence to get rid of the old stuff.

Belinda was an excellent presenter. This was a great program.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Belinda was a wonderful presenter. She is professional, friendly, easy to listen to and very knowledgeable. I had a wonderful day.

Overall the workshop was extremely helpful. I learned all new ideas to consider when evaluating a collection to be weeded. Overall, a wonderful session.

Great Program! Practical advice & ammo to use on administration.

Belinda was very entertaining. She gave great suggestions for weeding. Her ‘theories’ were very well grounded in the realities of the library world.

I wanted to thank you for your wonderful presentation. You are truly a great teacher!

Your workshop was outstanding! It has been the best workshop I have attended. There hasn't been a week go by that I haven't thought about the workshop and used the materials one way or another.

The instruction provided a very well-rounded program which encouraged much useful discussion.

Ms. Boon loves her work – is dedicated to it – and passes on her knowledge. She is a delight.

This entire workshop pertained to my position as a new library director. This has identified areas that I need to focus on, and suggestions as to how to approach the task at hand. Plus it affirmed decisions I have already made and priorities I have set. Wonderful!!!

I learned so much in such a short time. Thank you, Belinda!

[The workshop was] Beyond need matching and expectations. So many tips/insights and tremendous value of subject matter.

Everything was very useful.  I never realized so much information could be discussed on the topic of weeding.  It was great!

Lively, interactive, humorous, yet informative – in other words, not boring!

Clear powerpoint presentation – very interesting speaker – excellent handouts & manual.

Kept your interest, demonstrative, very up to date.

Energetic, knowledgeable, and interesting speaker.

It was fun – full of information.

The presenter’s enthusiasm was most appreciated; her depth of knowledge on every topic was impressive.  Weeding exercise was helpful

Lots of material was presented that was timely and valuable.  The presenter was excellent!  Well balanced with information, humor, stories, etc.

It was informative and interesting.  All of our questions were answered.

Belinda is very engaging.  I also enjoyed doing the ‘hands on’ weeding.

Very informative and speaker expressed a lot of good items on how to weed and dealing with the public.

Excellent information and presentation.

Fantastic! I feel so much better.

Excellent. The examples were very helpful.

Great presentation and would love to attend more of these workshops!

Very productive and interesting.

Very helpful.

From the SELCO Library Feedpage, Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:25:57 written by Monica Erickson, SELCO-PLA Scholarship Recipient, Chatfield Public Library (http://www.feedage.com/feeds/1716034/selco-librarian): 

Weeders Attract More Readers! was fairly calling out to me ... or maybe it was more of a case of yanking me by the collar since the whole topic of weeding is something I usually like to slink away from and avoid.  Belinda Boon made me feel as if "Yes, I CAN weed my collection and gosh darn it will be fun and rewarding!"  Okay ... maybe not fun, but indeed necessary and very beneficial.  She referenced a website I can't wait to check out called SUNLINK Weed of the Month.  Its archive provides help in weeding every main Dewey subject area.  Check it out at http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed/.  Actually, weeding might even be fun if one could only memorize and sing Belinda's "Weeding Song" (sung to the tune of "Rawhide") to bolster enthusiasm during the whole painful ordeal.

From the Utah State Library Newsletter, Vol. 13 No. 2, September 2000 (http://library.utah.gov/dful0900.html):

Summer UPLIFT Reference Class Concludes

The State Library Division hosted the fifteenth annual summer UPLIFT program in mid-August. Belinda Boon, Continuing Education Consultant with the Texas State Library & Archives, taught a class in Basic Reference Skills for 31 spellbound librarians. Class participants included directors and assistants from Utah's rural libraries, librarians from state institutional libraries, and guests from private and academic schools.

Ms. Boon covered the serious issues of policy-making and effective interviewing while enthusiastically promoting a smorgasbord of print and online resources. Everyone enjoyed her knowledge, wit, and understanding of the challenges facing small libraries.