At the Library

Only you can prevent weeded books.

Recently the library has been going through a process of book removal we call ?weeding.? Staff members go through and find all the books that haven?t been checked out in five years or more and get rid of them. They go to either our book store run by the Teen Advisory Board called ?Re-Book? or we ship them off to Better World Books, where they find homes for these abandoned books. There are a few exceptions that don?t share this fate. These books are put back on the shelf as if nothing has happened to it. These special few show both sides of the librarian?s emotional spectrum. One side says, ?It?s so sad no one has read this in the last five years,? while the other half says, ?At least I can use executive power and put it back on the shelf.?

These books are usually the books everyone assumes the library will always have. When we have to go through our weeding process and toss some of our Jack London books, everyone feels it. Usually these books are the ones that were read by people as kids or in early adulthood. They are classics, either by humor, plot, or theme. The reason why they get thrown out is because everyone assumes they will never get thrown out. That?s why it?s imperative for people to read their childhood classics over again. Their thoughts on the book may have changed due to personal experience. The book could be better than they remember, or that person they always hated could turn out to be a decent guy who was just trying to help.

So the next time you?re on hold for the latest Janet Evanovich book, James Patterson, or even Fifty Shades of Grey, and you?re 22nd in line, take a stroll through the shelves and find those books you loved as a kid. Who knows, you might just save a book.

The following new materials are available.

Adult Fiction

November Rain by Donald Harstad

Large Print Fiction

The Cheyenne Trail by Ralph Cotton, Shadow River by Ralph Cotton, The Man From Boot Hill by Marcus Galloway, Preacher's Blood Hunt by William W. Johnstone, Shotgun by C. Courtney Joyner, The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe by Alexander McCall Smith, Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult, Her Last Whisper by Karen Robards, Hell Creek Cabin by Frank Roderus

Young Adult Fiction

I, Q : Independence Hall by Roland Smith

Juvenile Fiction

Dragon Flight by Jessica Day George, Thursdays With the Crown by Jessica Day George, Dory Fantasmagory by Abby Hanlon, The Watcher by Joan Hiatt Harlow, Home by Sarah Prineas, Hook's Revenge by Heidi Schulz, Shouldn't You Be in School? by Lemony Snicket