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Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian

by Scott Douglas

Da Capo

April 2008, 320 pages, $25.00

by Lara Killian

PopMatters Associate Books Editor

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Douglas explains why library school is useless for an aspiring librarian and also about the many, many different types of crazy people who congregate in libraries.

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