Book burning

[joanna bujes]

When I was teaching at SUNY Plattsburgh, the librarians announced that they 
would get rid of all the books that had not been checked out for a couple 
of years. You mean, we cried, if no one has checked out Plato or Dickens 
or....you fill in the blank, you'll chuck it?

Well, they said, basically yes.

I think they might have winnowed the rejects for the Greats, but otherwise...

Nothing surprises me anymore.

Joanna