Behind the desk at the Main a librarian's memoir

"A memoir of the author's twenty years as a public librarian, exploring the ways that an urban public library reflects democratic society"-- Provided by publisher.

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Main Author: Lazard, Dorothy (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2026]
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Table of Contents:
  • The Main
  • Here comes everybody
  • Serendipity
  • Adventures in weeding
  • Gathering a lonely planet
  • A second start
  • Your other teacher is a librarian
  • Trouble in paradise
  • Bibliomania
  • Dewey's decimal ghetto
  • The library in the municipal food chain
  • A book is a bomb
  • Whose work is this?
  • Harvesting history
  • The library as literary workspace
  • Are you ready for your mystery date?
  • The future of history
  • COVID and the dubious art of pivoting
  • Why we leave
  • My free little library
  • Dismantling Sarah's library.