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Customer Service Starts in Circulation
One of the few job hazards of being a public librarian is that everyone asks you why a library has a certain policy or rule. Often it is in areas I can readily explain like Internet filtering, privacy, weeding, etc. However, there have been a few times, I am absolutely…
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Chew on this!
Everyone Eats Kuo 2012 Submitter: I think this one wins the Irony of the Year award. One of my colleagues asked whether we should bother re-ordering this one. I suggested maybe we see if there’s a more sturdy, less appetizing version first. Holly: The irony just drips!
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Embrace Some Fashion From the 1970s
Fashions of a Decade: The 1970s Herald 1992 Submitter: Unfortunately, there are no fashion history aficionados at our school. This is a lone volume from a series, which is probably why it hasn’t been touched in years. It’s a pretty thorough overview of 70’s trends, and covers big influences like…
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Get Yourself Together
Get Yourself Together Schwab 1987 Show of hands: How many of you dabbled in these awesome late 80s fashions? Of course, I can’t believe it is still in a teen nonfiction collection. I can hear every modern teen girl going “Ewwww.” I am going to guess they don’t want to…
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Be Prepared!
Boy Scout Handbook Boy Scouts of America 1964 Submitter: My son brought back a book from his elementary school library that is just awful. The library is nice, they just completely remodeled it with a grant from Target, but some of the books on the shelf have been there since…
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ALB Best of the Worst 2014 – What Were They Thinking?
As we wrap up 2014, for our final list of the worst, we have some titles and cover art that have left us wondering what were these people thinking? I think that just about everything is represented here. We have a couple science fiction covers that will blow your mind, x-rated…
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