A catalog of withdrawn public library materials from around the United States

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dating secrets
David Bromige
+"cookbooks" -atkins
North Carolina or NC
Available   physically owned by the P.L. of A.P.L.D
Available AL   discarded in Alabama & physically owned
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This catalog documents 5,000 books that were deaccessioned from libraries in the most literate cities of
25 U.S. states in 2006.

Deaccessioning, or weeding, is a vital library process that allows librarians to replace outdated, inaccurate, unpopular and/or physically damaged books with newer, more pertinent materials.

The purpose of this catalog is to highlight the obscure, trivial and misleading so as to better understand the relevant, the beautiful and the true.