Saturday, November 22nd, 2008

Inquiry: Scott Douglas - Quiet Please: Dispatches from a Public Library

SCOTT DOUGLAS is a librarian at the Anaheim Public Library. He has written a hilarious yet touching memoir about what librarians really do, and only a little of it is about books. Mostly librarians interface with a public that includes hungry homeless families; paranoid crazy people, teenage thugs, bitter older people and kids out to hack the library PCs. It’s all in a days work if you are a real “public servant” and it’s all worthwhile because you really can help people. Douglas’ tell-all inspiring book is QUIET, PLEASE: DISPATCHES FROM A PUBLIC LIBRARIAN. Tune in and find out why Scott hates Parker Posey!