My co-worker Jeff decides what donated books don't get added to the collection at the library. Occasionally I disagree with his choices.
Part of The Year of the Blog.
Arguably the biggest mistake in the history of the library, if not the entirety of the college itself, was not adding Secrets of Boudoir Photography to the collection. I’m pretty sure this work speaks for itself.
I rescued this from the donations pile. They weren’t even going to sell this book. Ridiculous. How will the public ever receive an answer to that popular question, “What were L. Ron Hubbard’s views on art, and what would a photo of every award L. Ron Hubbard has received put together in a giant clusterfuck look like?”
Well, I guess through me blogging about it.
Also important to note this book is part of a series of titles the Hubbster released on various subjects, including being a Sea Captain!
Everything you could need to know about taking awesome photos of waterfowl. Not available for library circulation. WTF Jeff.
Working at an art school library tends to mean you find really unusual books in the collection. It also means that everyone wants to donate their weird books to your library. It is my co-worker Jeff’s job to sort through the donation titles and decide if they are worthy of adding to the collection. These are some books that, shockingly, did not make the cut and ended up on the sale shelf.
Above is an example. There was so much I wanted to learn about tiny chairs, poorly photographed. But instead I’ll have to use one of the seven other titles on the subject in the library. Oh well.
