Category: Librarian’s Choice
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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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The Picture File
The picture file: A manual & curriculum-related subject heading list Hill 1975 Submitter: [This is] from a middle school library non-fiction shelf available for student use! The internet eliminated the need for picture files more than 15 years ago, but I found this book on the shelf last year. Once…
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File those cards properly!
>ALA Rules for Filing Catalog Cards Hiss 1942 Submitter: This book is particularly awful as it was on the regular non-fiction shelf in a high school library. This wasn’t even on a professional shelf being kept for historic value after the elimination of the card catalog 35 years ago! It…
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Manage that Small Library
Small Libraries: Organization and Operation Sager 1992 Submitter: I dug this relic out of our library science collection. It’s from 1992. I’m sure current librarians and librarians in training could benefit from this book’s advice, including how to type a catalogue card and how to keep your date stamp properly…
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Library Media Manual
Library Media Manual Spirt 1979 Submitter: I wanted to share some photos of a book I inherited when I became the Library Media Specialist at the [Middle School] in [NJ]. It is entitled “Library / Media Manual,” by Diana L. Spirt. It was published in 1979 by the H.W. Wilson…
Awful Library Books 