This category addresses those Awful Library Books that have a problem with condition or poor processing.
Basic Typewriting Drills Wanous 1978 Submitter: Who wouldn’t want a typewriting practice book? Obviously that would be so much more helpful than the dozens of free keyboarding practice games available online. My favorite part of this book, aside from the
Everyone Eats Kuo 2012 Submitter: I think this one wins the Irony of the Year award. One of my colleagues asked whether we should bother re-ordering this one. I suggested maybe we see if there’s a more sturdy, less appetizing
Men in groups Tiger 1969 Submitter: Today’s submission is one of the worse condition books I have ever seen on a shelf. I know budgets are stretched thin, but there seems little reason to put so much effort in to this
The Well-Behaved Child: Discipline that Really Works! Rosemond 2009 Submitter: A colleague put this recently circulated item in my mailbox; it cannot go back on the shelves in its newly damaged condition. You can see the scribble marks on the
Skifahren 1994 Submitter: I’m a librarian at an international school in Germany and I recently weeded this book from my school’s primary library. It’s not a bad book, per se, but it definitely does not belong in an elementary school
Billy, the Condominium Cat Slobodkina 1980 Submitter: “Billy, the Condominium Cat” – what could go wrong? Holly: This is a children’s book, so hopefully they won’t catch the joke because they won’t know what a condom is. On the other
Guinness World Records 50th Anniversary Edition 2005 Submitter: I can’t give any other pictures of this book, because the front and back covers were ALL I found on the shelf. Seriously. They were shelved correctly, I guess, but there’s not much
Anne of Green Gables Montgomery 1987 (paperback) original copyright 1908 A friend sent me some scans of this poor book from an elementary school library. It was only recently weeded, but had looked awful for years. This paperback had been
