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Cops and Robbers! via Awful Library Books by marykelly48 on 6/29/09

Careers in the Protective Service

Chamberlin

1963

This book was a fun browse. I found it accidentally and cracked up as this super cool detective guy in his super cool white socks collects evidence from the safe cracking crime. Question: when was the last time you heard about a safe cracker? I think this looks like the set of an Edward G. Robinson film.

I am going to make a wild guess that maybe this book is a bit dated for a teen career section!

Weeding Scare of the Week!

Send this book to the moon! via Awful Library Books by hhibner on 6/8/09

Reach for the Moon
Hendrickson
1962

I am very entertained by this book. It uses the future tense about going to the moon, like “The United States is planning several ways of getting man to the moon and back. Whichever turns out to be the best will be the one we’ll use” (um…good plan, rocket scientist!). The last page of the book talks about how some day people “will be able to see all the cities and towns, and make out their outlines.” Google Earth, anyone?

This book is still on the shelf in a public library! They inter-library loaned it to me. Will it go back on the shelf when I send it back?

Awful Library Books!

We here at Libraryland Roundup understand the agony of weeding. The angst. Sturm und Drang, if you will.

As a reminder to get out there and weed, RA Run Down via The Reader's Advisor Online Blog by Cindy Orr on 5/26/09 has pointed us to Awful Library Books.

While aimed at the librarian, is also comprehensible to most laypeople. Michigan librarians Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner meticulously search out items on actual library shelves. Items that should have been "deaccessioned" long ago. As good librarians, Kelly and Hibner give us a partial citation and their reasons for suggesting an item be weeded from a library's collection.

We here at Libraryland Roundup implore you: DON'T LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU!

Your Mama’s Cell Phone via Awful Library Books by hhibner on 5/25/09

Introducing Cellular Communications: The New Mobile Telephone System

Stan Prentiss

1984

"You knew this was coming, didn’t you? Don’t you love the picture on the cover?

Anyone looking for a book about how to use their new iPhone or how to send text messages is going to be very, very disappointed in this. There is no mention of voice mail either."