Will be pulling this out the next time someone expresses reluctance to weed

"Weed" as in the verb meaning "to pull old, mangled, outdated, no-longer-popular library materials from the shelves in order to make room for newer stuff."

Not "weed" as in the noun meaning "pot."

So I was going through the juvenile 900s and looking at the books on different countries to pull the ones written before 2000. And check out what I found:

Enchantment of the World Series: Yugoslavia. (copyright 1984).

Wow. Just WOW.

This was purchased in 1994, when it was already 10 years old and ALREADY WRONG. Wanna hear the scariest part? It's been checked out 22 times, with the last time being in 2007. I'd like to see what grade that kid got on his country report. Or I'd like to meet the teacher who assigns country reports on places like "Yugoslavia" and "Czechoslovakia."

That's almost as good as the one time I was weeding the adult 900s in my old library and came across a thick 1988 copy of The Soviet Union Today!

In a public library, old information = wrong information.

The end.

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