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And the Wrecking Ball Best of All!
My temp assignment as the inmate law librarian of a county jail promised to be an encounter with the unknown. Up until that point Iโd worked in many different kinds of libraries, but this was the ...
Microform
Back before I was let go from an asbestos law firm, I made copious use of microform records. I say microform because I make the distinction between rolls of microfilm; the small sheets properly called microfiche; ...
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Bookstore adventures
From 1992 to 1998 I worked at a large independent bookstore. Mostly I worked in the store room. They started me on paperback literature which was a mess. My task was to alphabetize and stack the ...
Third Class
When I was working at a failing radical newspaper some thirty years ago, someone gave me the task of preparing a third-class mailing. This meant hand-processing about 5,000 envelopes, maybe more. Third-class mailings are supposed to ...
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