{"id":2440,"date":"2016-04-26T14:41:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:05:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:05:43","slug":"the-psychic-sasquatch-and-their-ufo-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2016\/04\/26\/the-psychic-sasquatch-and-their-ufo-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychic Sasquatch and Their UFO Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/weeding-the-worst-library-books\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2447\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/04\/gross-weeding-worst-library-books-690x348-1461616016.jpg\" alt=\"Gross-Weeding-Worst-Library-Books-690x348-1461616016\" width=\"690\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/04\/gross-weeding-worst-library-books-690x348-1461616016.jpg 690w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/04\/gross-weeding-worst-library-books-690x348-1461616016-300x151.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/04\/gross-weeding-worst-library-books-690x348-1461616016-624x315.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Library weeding isn&#8217;t a shenanigan &#8212; it&#8217;s an important part of collection development and a common activity in academic and public libraries. Pulling out awful \/ super-fantastic weeded books and drawing attention to them, though &#8212; that&#8217;s a shenanigan for sure.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>New Yorker<\/em> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/weeding-the-worst-library-books\">a piece<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/awfullibrarybooks.net\/\">Awful Library Books<\/a> blog today. (Here at Library Shenanigans, of course, we&#8217;ve known about the blog since <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/18\/awful-library-books\/\">2010<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(Also, you gotta love that for Jack &#8220;Kewaunee&#8221; Lapserities, M.S., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoccultsection.com\/2011\/01\/28\/so-what-is-the-plural-for-bigfoot\/\">and others<\/a>,\u00a0the plural of <em>sasquatch<\/em> is <em>sasquatch<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/sasquatch\">Not everyone<\/a> agrees &#8212; but then, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/bigfoot\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> claims the plural of <em>bigfoot<\/em> is <em>bigfeet. <\/em>So, whatever.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/eigsti.psy.uconn.edu\/\">Inge-Marie Eigsti<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library weeding isn&#8217;t a shenanigan &#8212; it&#8217;s an important part of collection development and a common activity in academic and public libraries. Pulling out awful \/ super-fantastic weeded books and drawing attention to them, though &#8212; that&#8217;s a shenanigan for sure. The New Yorker has a piece on the Awful Library Books blog today. (Here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3942,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}