After a long day of answering questions and serving up information to the public (students, etc), a librarian could use a laugh. So pick up a copy of Roz Warren’s OUR BODIES, OUR SHELVES: A COLLECTION OF LIBRARY HUMOR (HOPress, 2015) and see what might be between the covers that tickles your funnybone.
Here’s an excerpt from one story: Freeze! It’s the Library Police [a librarian’s fantasy of recovering stolen books]
“Open up bitch! It’s LIBRARY SQUAD!
Library Squad! A group of enraged middle-aged librarians. We’re brainy, we’re relentless. We’ll hunt you down. We’ll never give up. We know the Dewey Decimal Sysytem and we’re not afraid to use it. And we always get our book.
And if you resist? We’ll shush you. Permanently.”
In addition to her library duties at the Bala Cynwyd Library right outside Philadelphia, Roz Warren writes forThe New York Times, The Funny Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Jewish Forward and The Huffington Post. And she‘s been featured on the Today Show. Our Bodies, Our Shelves is her thirteenth humor book. Years ago, Roz left the practice of law to take a job at her local public library “because I was tired of making so damn much money.” She doesn’t regret it.
Our Bodies, Our Shelves, ISBN 9780692406465
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