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"HOLY SHIT THAT'S AN ETHNIC SLUR."
-Me, weeding the children's nonfiction section that has evidently not been weeded in DECADES
It’s inventory week in the library! That means I scan each book in the collection to, as I explain to my kids, “tuck it in for the summer.” Basically, I need to make sure everything’s accounted for by the end of the school year and know if anything’s gone missing.
My predecessor inventoried every year, but I’m learning she wasn’t super big on weeding out the collection unless she absolutely had to. I started inventory yesterday and I already have a small mountain of books to remove from the collection behind my desk.
Out of everything I’ve found, here are my favorites:
A Scholastic book fair VHS from the 90′s that states on the box that it was supposed to be returned to Scholastic after the book fair.
To Hell With Dying by Alice Walker-- She’s an incredibly famous author, yes. But what is this doing in an elementary library?
One particularly politically incorrect fairy tale book from the 1950′s.
Tune back in on Monday for more weeding gems.
Weeding at work…these books haven’t left their shelf in over five years… We had over a 1000 books to weed… and I think we are almost done… like we have about 30-40 more books to pick out…Its such a shame because some of the books are in really good condition… We usually sell the ones that are in good shape though … 😊
Tonight we pruned the library. There’s another 40-50 or so stacked on the laundry table but we’re already tempting fate with these piles. I know the cat will take out the bottom step at about 2am this morning.