BAD Reads
Valuable (NOT!) Stuff From Our Booksale
Last month I wrote an entry entitled "We're the Library, NOT the Dump, So THINK Before You Donate!"
For those of you who thought I was exaggerating (and shame on you!) here are some recent examples of what I am talking about:
Travel guides from the early 90s
A set of computer programming textbooks from the late 70s
Yes,we did have computers back then, my dears. I remember it well..........
More up to date, but still out of date computer books--like a "Word Perfect" guide from 1986.
A guide to having your own home business--but about 10 years before the Internet, let alone things like Ebay, existed for public use.
A hard hitting expose from the mid-60s about how advertising was being used to dupe consumers. Shocking!
Some sort of agricultural directory from the USDA, circa 1989.
A museum guidebook from the mid-80s.
Textbooks and more textbooks, none of which is in current use.
And foreign policy books from the 1960s
I mean, our policies have changed somewhat since then. We're not stuck in the middle of an ill advised war abroad now, are we?
Someone out there may want this stuff. But it's been sitting in our booksale for weeks, and now it is going bye-bye. Just as it should have done before it got to the library in the first place........
