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A Liberated Lady’s Guide to Cars
A Woman’s Guide to Fixing the Car Weissler and Weissler 1973 I will bet everyone looked at this cover and without even reading the title and thought: this is a book for the ladies. See the bright pink and purple? That mean it is for the gals. We wouldn’t want…
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Isn’t That Just Like a Man!
Oh Well! You Know How Women Are! and Isn’t That Just Like a Man! Cobb 1920 Submitter: I came across this gem on our discards cart. It comes from an undisclosed university library in the Pacific Northwest. This book was written by Irvin S. Cobb who was an early 1900’s…
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Weeding more than the books
The other day I was looking at a bunch of books that teach dancing. Dance instruction books were hardly jumping off the shelves. There could be a quite a few reasons for this. I know that disco dancing isn’t as popular as it once was. Obviously, we need an upgrade…
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Alien Hair
Hair of the Alien DNA and Other Forensic Evidence of Alien Abduction Chalker 2005 Not gonna lie, I love this kind of stuff. I confess that I have had moments when I watched Ancient Aliens. (Of course, it was strictly as background noise.) Who wouldn’t want to look at a…
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Total Joy = Serving Your Husband
Total Joy Morgan 1976 If you were around in the 1970s, the name Marabel Morgan will probably ring a bell. (We featured her first book the Total Woman a while back, but I think that post bit the dust years ago in one of our migrations.) She was one of…
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Discards
Let’s talk about what to do with weeded library materials. If you’ve ever heard Mary and I speak at a conference or in a webinar, you’ve heard us harp on the idea that where discards end up is as important as what actually gets discarded. We have to discard responsibly…
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