Awful Library Books

  • Find a Job

    Find a Job

    How to Find A Job on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other Social Networks Schepp and Schepp 2010 Career books are always going to be my trigger in collection management. Social media leads for jobs isn’t outdated, per se, but this book is now over 10 years old and that…

  • Mind and Vision

    Mind and Vision

    Mind and Vision: A Handbook for the Cure of Imperfect Sight Without Glasses Agarwal (7th Ed.) 1978 Submitter: We are a small public library. I found this in the health section. It was added in 2007 and, apparently, not donated but in fact purchased with real money from Amazon for $9.95. There…

  • Killer Karate

    Killer Karate

    The 100 Deadliest Karate Moves Gambordella 1982 Submitter: While cleaning up the sports and athletic section I found this book tucked behind the other books in the section. It looks like it escaped weeding by cowering behind all the other books. Rest assured this was kicked to the recycling bin.…

  • Meat for Dinner (Again!)

    Meat for Dinner (Again!)

    Famous Brands Meat Cookbook Brand Name Publishing 1985 I don’t know how many more of these tasty recipes I can manage. They are everywhere on our site. The problem with hanging on to old cookbooks in a regular collection is that the photography or illustrations aren’t really helping the recipes.…

  • Contingency Cannibalism

    Contingency Cannibalism

    Contingency Cannibalism: Superhardcore Survivalism’s Dirty Little Secret Takada 1999 Submitter: This was found in the survival and wilderness section of our little library. At first I was surprised by the title, then I was even more surprised when I realized it was misclassified. This probably would have done better in…

  • Planet X will destroy us…in 2003

    Planet X will destroy us…in 2003

    Blindsided: Planet X passes in 2033: Earthchanges! Hazlewood (2nd Ed.) 2001 Submitter: This amazing conspiracy rant explains how the media, all the governments (except Putin’s Russia) and society in general suppress the truth that Planet X is coming to destroy civilization in 2003. (Oh wait…). Cited sources include news articles…