this year, after The Washington Post ran a story about a popular fare on its shelves.
been checked out in 24 months.
The news hit a chord, prompting letters to the editor, a column from the Post's ombudsman, even a follow-up story in the Library Journal, a periodical for librarians.
chin-scratching: Does our library here do the same thing?
And the answer is no. Mostly no.
Well, yes, but in a different way.
Like all libraries, the Onondaga County Public outdated books from its collection. But librarians here do Instead, they use old-fashioned shoe leather, walking the its future.
"Yes, it is subjective," says Elisabeth Burton, Central Branch, the 115,000- square-foot, five-story library in The Galleries in downtown Syracuse. "We look around to see what areas are just looking too full. Because if they're that full, then people can't find what they want.
The browsing is difficult, because they're Liz Williams, the librarian in charge of the Central Branch's fiction collection, compares it to keeping a "The more crowded the shelves, the less things go out. Like a rack in a clothing store. Who's going to want to go through it?
" Williams says.
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