The SVA Librarians thought you might be interested in this fun memoir about a young librarian, Scott Douglas, working in a public library.
Excerpt from the PopMatters Blog:
Scott Douglas is a 20-something librarian in southern California. His memoir, Quiet, Please: Dispatches from a Public Librarian will be released 15 April 2008 by Da Capo Press, to coincide with National Library Week in the US. Douglas is a regular contributor to the McSweeney’s website, as well as maintaining his own blog, Speak Quietly regarding life as a public librarian. Recently Douglas took a break from his working honeymoon to take questions about his book for PopMatters.
The opening line of Quiet, Please is about masturbation in public. Were there any other contenders for grabbing the reader’s attention?
The only other opening was about librarians not being able to read, but this was changed in the second draft. I wanted something that said right away that libraries weren’t just about books.
Read the entire interview, “Who Says Libraries Are Just About Books,” here: “http://www.popmatters.com/pm/features/article/57045/who-says-libraries-are-about-books/”
