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An illuminating autobiography set in a Southern California public library offers a quirky account of life as a caretaker of modern literature and furnishes an entertaining account of the history of libraries, from the Gilded Age to the present day. 10,000 first printing.
 
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian || Shhhh..!!

Date of Review:  May 12, 2009
The Bottom Line: A quiet and quick read about libraries and the oddball and eccentric workers and customers that make them what they are.
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It seemed to Scott Douglas that becoming a librarian was a logical career choice, if not a natural choice.

His world had "long been about books and writing and anything remotely literary." Progressing from page to library technician...
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Insiders look at a young man learning...
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Quiet, Please: Wherein a blog does not successfully translate into a book

Date of Review:  Jun 7, 2009
The Bottom Line: Read the blog instead.
Review: Scott Douglas has been blogging about his job as a librarian for the Anaheim Public Library for a couple of years now at McSweeney's Internet Tendency. Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian takes this material and expands upon it into a...
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Authors Scott Douglas
Nonfiction Category Biography & Autobiography • Language Arts & Disciplines
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  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Da Capo Pr (March 24, 2008)
Measurements: 9.25"(h) x 6.5"(w) x 1"(d), 1.16 lbs.
ISBN: 9780786720910
 
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