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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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Pierogi Payout
How to Land a Top-Paying Pierogi Makers Job McFadden 2012 This is a real book. And real libraries own it. To be fair, not a lot of libraries own it, but it is still too funny not to share. Imagine the publisher pitch meeting: “What we really need is a…
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Don’t Feel Sorry for Paul
Don’t Feel Sorry for Paul Wolf 1975 You can tell by the cover of this book that it is old! The one dark spot over the word “Don’t” in the title is where the protective plastic cover is ripped. Condition = fail. Second, look at that amazing collar on Paul’s…
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Slim Goodbody
Submitter: I found this as I was weeding the children’s section of our public library. It’s copyright is 1977; it was acquired in 1982; it hasn’t been checked out since 1997. My first thought when I pulled the book off the shelf was, “Is that Bob Saget?” The nicest thing…
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