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The Librarian at Play

by Edmund Lester Pearson

Humorous sketches of library life from 1911, by a librarian who wrote a column called The Librarian for the Boston Transcript. Pearson also invented an eighteenth-century almanac for librarians and fooled a good many of them. Here he is mostly telling the truth.

The librarian
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Reading time
About 2 hr 30 min
Where to find it
On the Archive shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #46933. In the public domain in the United States.

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