The Information Revolution The Reference Shelf, v.65, no. 5 1995 Submitter: We’re slowly working our way through the social sciences section, and I hit a set of shelves that had some of the most outdated and useless books I’d seen
Category: Bleeding Edge
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Say Cheese!
Take Better Pictures: The Kodak Library of Creative Photography Eastman Kodak Company 1983 Submitter: I was helping a patron today who was looking for books in our photography section and I came across a series of books by Kodak from
Kids and Computers
Communicate Online Rooney 2004 This had a grand total of ZERO circs and it really isn’t that great for content either. No mention of issues of copyright. No real discussion of safety other than a comment: “if you see something
Ye Olde Word Processor
Beacham’s WordStar Professional 5.0 Handbook Beacham 1989 Submitter: If you can’t remember WordStar, that’s because it was a word processor that was available for DOS and had its last release, which was for Windows 3.0, in 1991. (Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar for
Something Different: A Science Book Disclaimer
Our Senses and How They Work Zim [1956, 1965] Submitter: I was amazed to see that a school, even a private one, had gone to the trouble to make a stamp expressing this position so plainly. Perhaps I am just
Y2K
Time Bomb 2000: What the Year 2000 Computer Crisis Means to You! Yourdon 1998 Thank you, submitter, for another look at Y2K. We had another Y2K submission a while back. Read all about it here! This was favorably reviewed by Library Journal, and
TV Repair
Practical Handbook of TV Repairs Margolis 1969 Submitter: This book may once have been handy and up-to-date, but now in 2010, I doubt it is of much use! Holly: If you have a TV this old, I wonder how difficult
Living in the Future
2010: Living in the Future Hoyle 1973 This is one of my favorite submissions! Libraries that own this were probably waiting until 2010 to weed it. Some concepts in this book are actually not far off of the truth: ordering