I Left Out George Steinbrenner

[tmcg]

Making this was fun--you type in names and Condemn them, Redeem some if you change your mind, then run through deciding who's more evil--but I think some of my Condemned got maybe a little too serious. I also had too many of them, so I had to Squish the theatre talkers and Domino's drivers.

Whoever keeps putting my middle initial on my convention badges
Circle I Limbo

The people who canceled Firefly in favor of "reality" programming
Circle II Whirling in a Dark & Stormy Wind

Cellphone performance artists
Circle III Mud, Rain, Cold, Hail & Snow

Anyone who contributed to making Microsoft Word suck
Circle IV Rolling Weights

People who talk in theatres during shows /// Homicidal Domino's Pizza drivers
Circle V Stuck in Mud, Mangled

River Styx

The corrupt and inept people destroying the library where my friend works
Circle VI Buried for Eternity

River Phlegyas

Racists, homophobes, and the other socially intolerant
Circle VII Burning Sands

Cheney, Rove, and Dubya
Circle IIX Immersed in Excrement

Abusers of children, the elderly, animals, domestic partners
Circle IX Frozen in Ice

Design your own hell

Comments

[terrymcgarry.livejournal.com]

Oh, weeding I completely understand, and my shelves show how I've reaped the benefits of it. (I love library discard books, because their identifiers show their history and where I picked them up.) You describe its process in a healthy library really well, though, and your point about staff/volunteers is well taken; we were just musing on why these books couldn't be donated to charity, and that explains it.

In this particular case, though, they're books in great shape, they're not being offered for sale, some of them were moving well in circulation, and the criteria for discarding them are boggling. So it's extra heartbreaking to see them Dumpstered. Rescue attempts are made where possible. We've adopted a bunch. It feels like taking in strays. *g*

I would love to see that survey link, thanks! And thanks for the sympathy. I'll pass it along, and he'll appreciate it.

[cardigirl.livejournal.com]

OCLC's 2005 report is Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources. It's available at www.oclc.org//reports/ , the first link.

Taking in strays... yeah I have a few of those myself. ;)

I wish the donation-to-charity issue were less of a knot. The problem is, the discard books run the gamut from "my dog threw up on it" to "yet another copy of the Da Vinci Code of the 100s we had to buy and this one is just a bit shabby." No one wants the former; even the latter is iffy. Make that a shabby unknown thriller and no one will ever pick it up. Sorting through those piles is... impossible; it's thousands and thousands of books, if not tens of thousands. All you can do is shrug.