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Getting Fired in 1974
Getting Fired An American Ordeal Tarrant 1974 Note the publication date. Yes, it was still on the shelf of a medium public library as of this writing. As many of you know, old career and job information just chaps my MLIS. The author has a book sprinkled with personal accounts,…
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Saturday Night Fever
The Bee Gees Schumacher 1979 Hubba hubba! May I present to you the hotties of 1979, The Bee Gees. What a great choice for the public middle school library that submitted this book! Well, 35 years ago, anyway. It could have been weeded in the mid-80s. By then the Gibb…
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Foster Care Fun
For Your Own Good Sanford 1993 These books seem to be ubiquitous. I think they are stalking me! I am now sleeping with one eye open. Yes, today we have another Sanford Special about life in a foster family. Our young protagonist is Jerome and he has a little brother Jamin.…
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More Grave Matters
Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself Power 2001 Submitter: This book was weeded from our public library collection because it hadn’t circulated in more than 5 years. The front cover was enough to make me laugh and post a picture to Instagram with the hastag #NeglectedBooks and #LibrarianHumor, but I didn’t…
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How to Work for a Japanese Boss
How to Work for a Japanese Boss Bacarr 1992 This is less a book about how to work for a Japanese boss than it is a book about the business culture of Japan…twenty-two years ago. This book made sense for the suburban Detroit-area public library in which it was found,…
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English Teachers and Dirty Stuff
Obscenity, The Law, And The English Teacher National Council of Teachers of English 1966 I plucked this one from the catalog of a small/medium sized public library. Let’s face it, the word obscenity always gets my attention. Think of this as “catalog click-bait.” This is a summary of a couple…
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