The Secret Lives of Librarians
Thanks for the nice intro, Laila, and thanks for having me.
McSweeney’s public library embed Scott Douglas reveals some secrets of the book-lending trade in his latest dispatch from inside the theft detection pillars. He confesses:
When a kid comes to the reference desk and asks, “Where are the books on dinosaurs?,” I frequently will point very broadly at the rows of bookshelves and say, “Over there.”
Which I guess explains why I can never find any damn books about dinosaurs.