At least once a month a librarian checking out my books in my city library stops dead in the middle of her scanning and remarks, “this is an old one”. Sometimes it’s because I’ve managed to find a book that got overlooked when they put barcodes in everything. Or the book has the City Name Institute versus City Name Public Library stamped inside.
That’s when I joke about having to blow dust off the book or being the last person since 1947 to check out a particular book. Not too many people in my city hunting down M.R. James’ tome on abbeys. Or a very hard to find humorous book edited by THE Shirley Jackson.
Not every old book I grab from the stacks is the best or even good. But they might deserve a second look. That’s the thought behind a new feature. I grab a neglected book or in the first blog post for this new feature, an entire series (or all of the series I can get through interlibrary loans!). Let’s call it FROM THE LIBRARY STACKS.
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