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Weed Olympics?
Much of hurricane-plagued Florida missed the 2004 Summer
Olympics--August 13 was the opening ceremonies in Athens
but also the day that Hurricane Charley roared into Florida.
Many homes were without power well into the games. As life
returns to normal, students may turn to the media center
to see what they missed. What games would they find in your
collection?
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
 Most
titles on the Olympic Games will be found in the 796s. But
you will have both individual and collective biographies
that should be reviewed. Be sure to check the reference
section for outdated histories of the Olympics.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
While
it may be fine to keep older titles for specific Olympic
games, it is not good to keep general histories of the games
that imply they are up-to-date but were published in the
1970s, 1980s or even the 1990s. Let the title as well as
the content be your guide. Older general titles will not
have some topics of interest to students today such as the
IOC position on professional athletes (1981), beginning
of steroid use (1988), the Dream Team (1992), and the Tonya/Nancy
saga (1994).
Accounts
of individual games may need to be updated in view of current
events such as terrorism. When new titles come out for a
past specific game, it is probably because new information
is now available.
Biographies
need close attention to personalities as well as viewpoints.
In the case of Jim Thorpe, any biography older than 1982
(when his medals were restored) is out-of-date. Athletes
who were popular 20 or 30 years ago may have faded from
public interest--replace them with more current personalities.
Older athletes may still be in the public eye--but because
their faces are associated with pain medication advertisements
instead of a Wheaties box. If you still need titles on them,
weed and update.
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- After
Olympic glory: the lives of ten outstanding medalists, 1978.
- Bruce
Jenner's Guide to the Olympics, 1979.
- Encyclopedia
of the Olympic Games, 1972.
- The
first book of the Olympic games, 1971.
- Getting
into Olympic form : those who know tell what it takes, c1980.
- Golden
girls: true stories of Olympic women stars, c1980.
- Goofy
presents the Olympics: a fun and exciting history of the
Olympics from the ancient games to today, c1979.
- Highlights
of the Olympics from ancient times to the present, 1969.
- Jim
Thorpe, all-around athlete, 1971.
- The
Modern Olympics, c1976.
- The
Olympic games : 80 years of people, events and records,
1976.
- The
Olympic games handbook: an authentic history of both the
ancient and modern Olympic games, complete results and records,
c1975.
- Stars
of the modern Olympics, 1967.
- Stories
from the Olympics : from 776 B.C. to now, 1976.
- The
Summer Olympics, 1979.
- The
winter Olympics, 1979.
- Young
Olympic champions, c1973.
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