Re: the Andy Rooney site that I recommended:
Sorry guys! It disappeared in just a few minutes, so I searched it out on the web
and reposted here for you. It's not new--it dates to 31 Aug. I think it's still
worth reading!
Jane Hohn from Nottoway H.S. Library
Andy Rooney's Top Ten
• It's A Jungle Out There
• Best Gift Is No Gift
• Andy's Commandments
• Library Rules To Shelve
• Section Front
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Library Rules To Shelve
Aug. 31, 2003
If you took all the useless pages out of all the books in a library, they'd save
miles of shelf space. (Photo: AP)
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Every library should try to be complete on something,
if it were only the history of pinheads."
(CBS) A weekly commentary by CBS News Correspondent Andy Rooney. It originally
aired on May 12, 2002.
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I use a computer, but 20 words on paper are worth a 1,000 on a computer, so I like
books in libraries.
I have 10 observations to make about them.
The tradition of silence in a library ought to be abandoned. I've worked in
newsrooms with people yelling all over the place and no one has any problem
concentrating. Silence can be more intrusive than sound because you strain to hear
the words of every whisper but you're oblivious to a yell or a shout.
Publishers should print books in just a few sizes - perhaps three.
There are too many blank pages at the beginning and end of most books, and authors
should be discouraged from taking up a whole page to say something like, "To my
wife Gretchen, without whose encouragement this book could not have been written."
I mean, why should we waste our time while the author tries to get in good with his
wife?
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If you took all the useless pages out of all the books in a library, they'd save
miles of shelf space.
I have written 12 books now. This is the last one, "My War." Having people take one
of my books out of a library does nothing for me.
Publishers should print the title of a book on the back parallel to the shelf, not
perpendicular to it.
I would exclude books of fiction from a library. A library should be used for
information, not entertainment. Go to the movies!
While I oppose capital punishment, anyone caught cutting a page out of a book in a
library should be put to death.
I would do away with dust jackets. Dust jackets are a pain in the neck and do not
prevent books from getting dusty.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Every library should try to be complete on something,
if it were only the history of pinheads."
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This is my little office library, with about 350 books. Forty seven of them are
books on English grammar and usage. This is the head of my pin.
It is a sexist thought that I know that some of you will object to, but mechanics,
prize fighters and garbagemen should be men. The best librarian I know is a man but
I like mothers, nurses and librarians to be women.
That's what I think about books and libraries.
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• Andy's Commandments
• Library Rules To Shelve
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