Author: Holly
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Pregnancy Fashion Sewing
Patterns for Pregnancy Musgrave 1987 Submitter: I worked in a large city public library for about 2 years where I located this relic of 1980’s maternity fashion. Patterns for Pregnancy is an interesting concept: sew your own maternity clothing for a fraction of the cost of buying new clothes. While the concept is a…
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Bread Sculpture – NSFW!
Bread sculpture : the edible art Wiseman 1975 Submitter: [This was found in a] small academic library. As a for-profit, so we’re even more at risk of legal action or the like if someone finds content in our collection offensive. I’ve actually been combing through older items in our culinary collection…
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Dress Like Liberace
Liberace: Your Personal Fashion Consultant Feder 2007 I know what I’m wearing to the library’s next fancy fund raiser! -Holly
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Royal Knitting
Royal Knits: Designer Knitting for the Monarchy and Monarchists McGuire 1987 The world was just as royal-frenzied in the 1980s as they are now, so maybe this book is popular again! Charles and Diana were married and produced two princes in the early 1980s, and William and Kate and Baby…
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Setting Up a Library
Setting Up a Library: How to Begin or Begin Again Smith 1979 Submitter: I showed this book to my co-worker and she said, “Where did you find that?” I hated to tell her it was in 027. Worse, it circ’d in 2011. Here are the totally incomprehensible instructions. To be clear,…
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For Sex Ed, See Librarian
For Sex Education, See Librarian: A Guide to Issues and Resources Cornog and Perper 1996 Submitter: My colleagues and I are just thankful no one ever noticed this book on our shelves…and then asked us for a sex ed seminar. *Quietly withdraw* Holly: My first thought was that it goes back to…
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