![]() She interviewed the Connecticut Four-three librarians and their director-who refused to comply with an FBI demand to hand over their computer records they challenged the Patriot Act, sued the federal government and fought for their patrons' right to privacy. ![]() It promised to be a pleasant and civilized project.īut in the first six months of her research, she watched her local library consortium go through a chaotic cataloging-software migration. Johnson knew from writing her first book, The Dead Beat, that librarians often have the quirkiest obituaries she was looking forward to finding out more about them. ![]() "I thought, 'If you know how to do this, and you're willing to help me, for free, and you won't laugh at me, what else do you know?'" And that was the genesis of her wonderful new book, This Book is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (HarperCollins, 2010). Johnson says she didn't want to leave the library. "To someone who already knew how to do it, it was idiotically simple," she writes in her new book, "but for me. ![]() In 2005, Marilyn Johnson '78G was researching her first book when a reference librarian showed her how to save web pages to her computer. ![]()
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