In retrospect, the city council's pronouncements back then were as troubling as they are now: the books in question, it said, were "duplicates, outdated or otherwise obsolete".
Can it survive beyond glorious declarations or official pronouncements?
As the Lib Dem leader faces a growing revolt after this week's violent protest against fee rises, internal documents show the party was drawing up proposals for coalition negotiations which contrasted sharply with Clegg's public pronouncements.
It is, of course, kisses and hugs, laughter and sweet pronouncements.
He said: "There have been many pronouncements about 'reforming' the kafala from the Gulf states governments, but that is like saying that slavery should be reformed or forced labour practices should be reformed.
The archive of this blog is a record of policies and pronouncements that have alienated women; the coalition's first austerity budget which cut public services, the lack of women in the cabinet and, of course, the occasional glimpses of sneering contempt from a man who believes we should all "calm down, dear".
It can be from rivals in the community, or self-appointed culture warriors sitting outside making pronouncements.
In the absence of regular pronouncements, there has been much animated speculation about why he did what he did, who has the material he took, and what kind of damage he has done.
But as the years have passed however, such pronouncements of imminent danger became rarer.
And now to Abbott's recent string of absurd pronouncements on continental Australian, Indigenous and colonial history, beginning, in July, with this: Our country is unimaginable without foreign investment.
Now, while all of these dribble-flecked, boggly eyed pronouncements about the dangers of Ed Miliband are all undoubtedly important and true, the general election doesn't actually take place until next week.
