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Tag Archives: weeding
Definitely Not the Opera
(This isn’t a real Perfect Whole essay. Those are long and complicated! This is just a short post about the amazing new place blogging took me recently.) I was contacted by Clare Lawlor, a producer at a CBC radio show … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Libraries, Writing
Tagged blogging, books, CBC, DNTO, libraries, radio, weeding
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Elegy for a Thousand Stolen Books
After the seven-year project of weeding my high school library, one task remained: inventory. I had avoided it for several years, reasoning that there wasn’t much point in carefully accounting for books I would probably discard anyway. If someone had … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Libraries, Education
Tagged books, DNTO, education, libraries, teaching, weeding
18 Comments
I Can’t Believe You’re Throwing Out Books!
I am a librarian but no longer a bibliophile. Throwing out thousands of books in three libraries over the past nine years has cured me of bibliophilia, though nothing on this side of mortality can ever release me from my … Continue reading