2133 My public library
has one title (1964) on the Lutheran church, but has The Complete annotated Grateful Dead lyrics. I don't know how many dead heads there are in Upper Arlington, but there are several thousand Lutherans.Lutherans
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A fun post to read, and one which prompts my thinking from several angles: library director, person who was raised Lutheran, and the annotator of the Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. As a librarian, I would hope that your library is buying books that are in demand by your patrons--that is, if thousands of your Lutherans are actively seeking books (35 published on the topic of the Lutheran Church, according to amazon.com, since 2003) about their faith, you should certainly have something more recent than 1964.
As a Deadhead (LCSH term), and as the author of the book in question, I hope it was purchased because it was well-reviewed, and in demand at your library. It's a fun book--take a look at it! I think it has a chance to break out of the limited Deadhead-only appeal, and suggest to anyone interested in literature and the arts that the larger conversation encompassed by and manifested in the arts is ongoing, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right...
Best,
--David Dodd
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