Don Borchert
Author of Free For All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the Public Library
About the Author
Works by Don Borchert
Game of Queens 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1949
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Lomita, California, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Education
- Ohio State University
- Occupations
- librarian
writer - Agent
- Randi Murray
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Reviews
Free for All: Oddballs, Geeks, and Gangstas in the… by Don Borchert
This is one of those exactly my experience type books. I especially identified with the MMM (makes me mad) chapter. I've met exactly those types who have a glitter in their eye when they are about to kick off with me as their chosen target.
Adult Nonfiction. One (assistant) librarian's account of all the crazy stuff that goes on inside libraries, except only some of it is actually interesting. For people that actually do work in libraries, this book can sometimes seem relatively tame, but there are other parts that do live up to expectations.
A pretty good book on what happens in our public libraries. Some moments are moving, and others are pretty funny. Public librarians today do everything from promoting reading to serving as social workers. I am a librarian, and I still find amazing the self-entitlement some clients bring to libraries, as if they could never do any wrong even when they are bold-face lying. That librarians manage to remain professional in the face of some people, to put it mildy, is simply amazing and proof that librarians and library workers are not valued enough given what we ask of them. Overall, a pretty good book about libraries today.… (more)
If you'd like a collection of anecdotes about the weird, crazy, and horrible in the library, then this could be for you. I made the mistake of expecting a well-rounded look into what it's like to be a librarian.
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- Rating
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