Category: Condition/Processing Fail
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Tape and Prayer
Christy Marshall LeSourd 1967 Submitter: While assisting a rural library with their weeding, we came across Christy. The solo librarian could not believe that it was still on the shelf. She was horrified. It was last checked out in 1995. This little library has done an excellent job of serving…
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Bush Friendly
Making Your Garden Bush Friendly: How to Recognise and Control Garden Plants which Invade Sydney’s Bushland McLoughlin 1993 Submitter: We are an academic library serving a landscape program. While right-sizing the collection this week, I found this unfortunate processing fail. For the record, the barcode is covering the word Garden.…
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Five Little Peppers
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Sidney 1962 Submitter: The cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life is the hand typed replacement page in this 1962 edition of Five Little Peppers. Holly: Cute! But definitely weed-worthy for condition. Looks like it could have been typed on my Grandma’s typewriter in 1962.
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Awful Call Number
Pumpkin Pumpkin Titherington 1989 Holly: Juvenile humor alert! I’m sorry, but this is just funny. Submitter: Not an awful library book but an awful call number. We circulate oversize picture books and use the call number Youth Big First 3 letters of author’s last name. The book is Pumpkin, Pumpkin…
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Black Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter Edwards and Harris 2016 Submitter: Here is a brand new book on display! It is shiny and new and deals with current events. The barcode sticker obscures the first part of the title, though, so its content is not exactly clear at first glance. I appreciate the…
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Solve the CUBE!
You Can Do the Cube Bossert 1981 The Rubik’s Cube is another puzzle skill I don’t have. Even with directions and help, I doubt I would get this to work. Holly, however, is a champ at the Rubik’s Cube – obviously the result of a misspent youth. Rubik’s Cube was…
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