It turns out you really can judge a book by its cover, especially if the title is something like “Siam Today.”
For K-12 librarians, it’s a no-brainer to toss a book that’s full of outdated, often politically incorrect information. But they say it’s a public relations nightmare when taxpayers find out librarians actually toss out books.
“It looked like a Nazi book-burning,” is how Grand Rapids’ Riverside Middle School media specialist Becky Goodspeed described her first few months of book-weeding in that library six years ago.
Last copy centers!!! We need
Last copy centers!!! We need regional last copy centers for the items we pull–even the Larence Welk bio!
Lawrence Welk
My grandmother always used to watch the Lawrence Welk show. After seeing the cover of that book I went and read the Wikipedia entry about him. Very interesting.
L.W.
I remember the show. About as interesting as watching milk ferment, but alot of people didn’t know that back then. It wouldn’t even get on the air today; maybe on the ‘nearly dead folks’ channel.
Saturdays @7PM
The local public station has it on in Tampa. I can tape it for you -assuming I can figure the VCR out. Now it is just a clock that is right twice a day.
Bubble books
Don’t worry about the Welk bio. Thirteen libraries in our consortium still have it. He’s a local boy.