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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 17, 1967
Card catalogues reveal odd titles
By Rick Maurey Kansan Staff Reporter
Watson Library is a great place to do research. Its walls are covered with books on medicine, law, science, history, bibliographies and reference books, periodicals and newspapers from all over the country.
But what about the books that take up room in the dark corners of the library—the books nobody ever asks for, mainly because they've never been mentioned in an evening's gossip session, nor assigned in the classroom?
Why don't more people ask for "The Sex Life of a Penguin," for example? It is certainly not because the book is always checked out.
In fact, many of the odd-titled books aren't checked out in Watson. Paging through the card catalogue you might come across readily available works such as "Bicycles, Stained-Glass Windows and Other Religious Items."
Farther down the list you'll find "Citizenship and Strawberry Jam," "Beautiful Junk," and a book recently put out by the U.S. Air Force: "How to Select a Harem."
Opening another box in the card catalogue you'll meet head-on with "The History of Addresses—by One Very Near Kin to the Author of the Tale of the Tub." After flipping a few more cards you might find "Don't Come Home Without It."
Pamphlets too
Then to the pamphlet section—a fabulous selection. "Drunkards Believe Bar as Heaven," "How to Get a Lady in Love," "How to Live a Bachelor's Life and Girl's Life Without Much Mistakes," "How to Write Love Letters and Win Your Fancy," "Before Ladies Every Boy Student is Handsome and Before Boys All Girls are Angels," and "Why Harlots Hate Married Men and Love Bachelors" are just a few of the articles put out by Public Opinion on Lovers.
The librarians all agree that the first on the list of weird-titled books would have to be Shel Silverstein's "Who Wants a Cheap Rhinocerous?" Then, in no particular order, but all unheard of are "Sermons and Sermon Snacks," "Why Cowboys Sing in Texas," "Dental Services for American Indians and Alaskan Natives," and "Bathyal and Abyssal Gammaridean Amphipoda of Cedros Trench."
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Current Industrial Reports adds another touch of unplanned humor. Their most recent list of pamphlets and periodicals includes "Government Operations—The Brain Drain Into the U.S. of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians," "Brassiers, Corsets, and Allied Garments," followed on the list by "All Hands," published by the Division of Public Documents
All of these and more can be found in Watson Library. It's a fact that none of the previously mentioned books are on the nation's best seller list. But that could be due to readers' lack of nerve. After all, some people might not want to walk into a book store or library and request outloud, "The Maid's Tragedy Altered—with Other Pieces."
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