Is that a scandal?

Question

Your public library quietly pulls ten thousand worn, outdated, never-borrowed books off the shelves this year and sends them to the pulper. There is no announcement.

Accepted Answer

It's called weeding, and every library on earth does it — pull the ragged and the unread, pulp them, make room. Librarians who skip it end up with shelves nobody can use. The profession's open secret: curation requires destruction. (24% of Americans answer "Scandal" — floor est.)