Good Doomed Books Part 1

[rabid1st]

Hello Friends...and welcome to Good Doomed Books...the last monument to books weeded from my library. Having run out of room on the shelves I am forced to weed for space those books that have not circulated in the last two or more years. I have decided to remember them here. Those of you who know and love them please feel free to eulogize.

The following books were weeded this week from my library shelves due to lack of patron interest:

Kage Baker's The Company Series - Hard Sci-Fi group of time traveling misfits

George Chesbro's Mongo Mysteries Series - What would happen if the sideshow folks in the X-Files episode Humbug had loads of mysterious adventures.

The Light of Other Days by Arthur C. Clarke

Hammerfall by C.J. Cherryh

Adios Muchachos by Daniel Chavarria (this book was the 2001 Edgar Winner for best mystery)

Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns

According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge (five time Booker Prize nominee)

Loads of Agatha Christie

Let us pause for a moment and reflect on the mind of the public...hat or hand over our hearts as we say goodbye to these titles.

Rae

Comments

[keswindhover.livejournal.com]

I've read the Cherryh, the Bainbridge and the Christies. *sigh* This makes me sad.

And, have you ever read 'Bellwether' by Connie Willis - where this exact process is going on, and the heroine seeks out books near the cut-off and checks them out. She suffers for it in the end, of course.

[gobi-rex.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of Bellwether every time I visit the library... I'm tempted to check out some items just to keep them in circulation. I don't know know if it helps any, however.

It can help Gobi...

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

...it certainly can't hurt to show your love of a book. But...in my library the median circ is 4 times a year for a fiction book. Four different people I'm afraid not the same person over and over again. And even if you really love a book...even the classics have a limited shelf life...because 23,000 items is a very small collection and it has to be current and diverse...

It is good to have good books...and definitely there should be a place for the great ones. But...say nobody reads a book...who are we fooling by keeping it on the shelf at the expense of something that might actually be read by someone?

Rae

Did that today actually...

[rabid1st.livejournal.com]

...I do save the ones I can for a time...but eventually there is no way to avoid the march of time taking its toll. I have to buy new books and there is a finite amount of space on my shelves.

In fact, the patrons were calling for the weed this time. "If you take a book off the shelves you can't put it back again without a struggle." I told that lady this was our sneaky way of making her take the books home..."If there's no place to put it on the shelve I guess you HAVE to take it home with you."

[fishsanwitt]

Out of this group, the only one I've read is the 'loads of Christie' :)

I *adore* Connie Willis and I loved 'Bellwether'. I actually got to meet her in Toronto at 'Torcon', the World Science Fiction Convention in September 2003.

I sometimes go into the library and just strolll among the old books :)

And when they have the book sales b/c they have too many books, I rescue what I can - LOL!