At one of my first jobs, we had a "wall of shame," books we couldn't believe the library ever bought, ideas we couldn't believe were ever appropriate, with covers designed just to scare away potential borrowers; I believe one featured a hideously-drawn kid looking up to similarly-disfugured gramps asking the titular question: "What's it Like Being Old?"This absolutely hilarious site works as tribute to the fun(ny) side of weeding. Also, reveals the human side of our biz, as in "who would make such a terrible mistake and allow this book to be published," as in "who would select this for a library?" ("As in what journal would positively review this?") ......All adding up to the big as in "aw, they're only human."
Maybe those were different times? Mustn't be historically advantagist, I suppose.
