Ozzy Osborne for Black History Month?!?!?!

Submitted by rochelle on February 16, 2007 - 5:25am
Topic: 
Collection Development

Grumpy Librarian writes "YBP's Community College Center provides "custom lists" of books on certain topics. I've always assumed that these were somehow selected, but the "Black History" list (released this month for obvious reasons) includes the book: Black Sabbath: Doom Let Loose: An Illustrated History and Black November: The Carl D. Bradley Tragedy — a book about a commercial shipping accident.

Have we become so lazy in our collection development that vendors can search their catalogs for black AND history and call it a selection tool?"

Comments

Submitted by nbruce (not verified) on February 16, 2007 - 4:23pm.

Apparently. I hope more effort went into selection.

Submitted by Chuck on February 16, 2007 - 4:51pm.

I hope they still bought the Black Sabbath book. Black Sabbath f*cking rocks.

Submitted by sarahmae on February 18, 2007 - 2:36am.

And all the books by Jeremy Black like A Military History of Britain

Submitted by Anonymous Patron (not verified) on February 19, 2007 - 7:13pm.

plus a few hallucinations...

just kidding.