Throw It Thursday - For the Love of Weeding

Ashley Borman, Technical Services Librarian at the Clintonville (WI) Public Library and YSS board member, is back with her monthly column and was moved by poetry and sense of fun to share her take on weeding via rhyme!

Happy National Poetry Month! This month, rather than dumping more thoughts and information on you, I thought I’d do something a bit more fun. So enjoy a couple of poems I wrote on weeding.

There’s a book that is falling apart

It just doesn’t look very smart,

The librarian reviewed it

And then she withdrew it,

It’s time for this book to depart.

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When a book is no longer used

Everyone in the library sings the blues.

Except for me, I sing with glee because

Discarding is my favorite thing!

Ink blots that block out whole pages?

Nasty food stains that have been there for ages?

Gross looking books, I spare no more looks

Instead of keeping them I throw them away!

Sorting through stacks of books unrelated, I keep

Finding things that are outdated.

Uh-uh, not here! I can’t be any more clear

Now get off of my shelves right this minute!