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Bookish: LIBRARY
HAUNTS & Elsewhere (4#) -

# Harvey Varnet, the new University of South Carolina Beaufort's library director, helped train Iraqi librarians in updated methods such as electronic cataloging... Varnet calls the condition he found them in the "Rip Van Winkle effect."

"You fall asleep in 1980 and wake up
in 2003, and suddenly everything's different."

# Bob Minzesheimer reviews two books about libraries which we have mentioned here before, I believe: The Library at Night and Quiet, Please.

Some light reading from the weeklies:

# Otto Penzler's column this week touches upon Ellery Queen, Ben Hecht, Kingsly Amis' relationship with James Bond, how Emma Peel got her name, and Michael Crichton's mysterious undercover career.

# Begley the Bookie reviews
a spring trio of books about some Glitzy Gals.

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