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Member: danrebo

CollectionsUnfinished -- not currently reading (7), Your library (108), Currently reading (5), Read but unowned (4), All collections (110)

Reviews18 reviews

Tagsnonfiction (31), history (28), natural history (20), sailing (17), novel (16), American history (15), exploration (15), collections & collecting (13), religion (13), fiction (11) — see all tags

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GroupsBirds, Birding & Books, Librarians who LibraryThing, Moby Dick

Favorite bookstoresUniversity of Florida, Special Collections

About meI'm an anthropologist and librarian supporting research and teaching about Africa and anthropology at a large public university. I enjoy managing and building these collections (yes, I get paid to buy books...eat your hearts out), sharing what I know about libraries, anthropology and Africa, learning more from the many people I encounter in my job and helping users find what they need. Along the way I find time to learn and appreciate what's available in my own institution (including rare books and antique maps) and elsewhere. I consider it my duty to work for library users, while at the same time unveiling some of the mysteries of libraries so they can navigate this hugely complex institution on their own.

About my libraryI like my books and tend to rate the ones I document here rather highly. I especially like to list books that few others have read and to observe my own parsimony in choosing what to include here from my own shelves. A confession: sometimes I list books that I've read but don't own. In my defense, I buy these sometimes long after reading them (for the first time).

Homepagehttp://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/africana/

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LocationGainesville, Florida

Emaildanreboufl.edu

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Common KnowledgeSeries (16), Awards (67), Characters (251), Places (119)

Member sinceFeb 8, 2006

Currently readingIn the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Hen Frigates - Wives Of Merchant Captains Under Sail by Joan Druett
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson
Paving Paradise: Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss (Florida History and Culture) by Craig Pittman
Scribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier by Alexandra Fuller