We are small historical museum with a rich collection of yearbooks.  We're
hoping to wrangle this collection over the course of the next few months,
and would love to know how other historical museums have dealt with them.
Specifically, there are years for which we've wound up with many repeats --
half a dozen and more.  Barring additional content worth preserving, does
anyone have experience dealing with the excess?  Our regular deaccessioning
policies will of course be followed, but has anyone found a creative, useful
purpose for such items?  Did you sell/give them to other interested
persons?  Getting rid of three of six copies of the 1972 yearbook seems like
it has more potential to be troublesome than getting rid of three badly
deteriorated, unprovenanced plows.

(Yes, we know they should have never been accepted in such numbers, but
that's someone else's mistake, and now our problem.)

Thanks,
Kaia

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