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Author Douglas, Scott, 1978-

Title Quiet, please : dispatches from a public librarian / by Scott Douglas
Published Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2008

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 W'PONDS  020.92 Dougla Dou/Qpd  AVAILABLE
Description 330 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "For most of us, librarians occupy a quiet, inconspicuous role as the occasional shushers behind the desk. But in Quiet, Please, McSweeney's contributor Scott Douglas takes these quirky caretakers of literature out from the safety of the stacks and places them front and center. With a keen eye for the absurd, and a Keseyesque cast of characters, Douglas delivers a revealing and often hilarious look into a familiar, innocuous setting that's surprisingly anything but." "Witness the librarian who thinks Thomas Pynchon is Julia Roberts's latest flame, the technician with a penchant for French pop, the patron who believes the government is canceling her print jobs, and the countless teenagers who know exactly where to shelve suggestions for further reading."--BOOK JACKET
Subject Douglas, Scott, 1978-
Douglass, Scott, 1978-
Public librarians -- California -- Biography.
Public libraries -- California -- Anecdotes.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780786720910 (alk. paper)