I never really believed in the trickle down theory of economics as espoused most famously by the later  Ronny Raygun,   but the global financial crisis has now trickled all the way down to the library where  I work.   The job that I took specifically because it was easy and low stress has become impossibly demanding [...]

A tale of three library reference departments, an out-dated reference book and one libdrone’s Search For The Truth.

Part of me feels guilty for posting about a second memoir by a second Los Angeles area librarian within less than three months, but Quiet Please   Dispatches from a Public Librarian was just barely too good to pass up.  Scott Douglas’ memoir of his career with the Anaheim library lacks some of the pizazz of [...]

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While I posted an Easy Books roundup just yesterday  I felt this Easy Non-Fiction title I stumbled upon last week rated a post of its own.    The Librarian of Basra is a true story about Alia Muhammad Baker who is the librarian in Basra, Iraq.   When war comes Alia fears that her library and [...]