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How to Know Every Children’s Book in Your Library’s Collection: (Hint - You can’t. But here’s what you can do to get close.)

Laura Raphael

Abstract


Before I became a librarian, I thought a librarian’s job was to carry an exact catalog in your brain and then robotically spit out precise book titles in response to a customer query.
“Science fiction, character appeal, no spaceships? Ah, I have the perfect book for you: Klara and the Son by Kazuo Ishiguro! And it was just re-shelved on Tuesday morning, so let’s go get that for you now!”


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