Free for All

Free for All is an accurate depiction of life as a librarian in a public library. Sometimes, the job is funny. Other times, it's incredibly sad. If you've never worked in a library system, this book will reveal some of the secrets of a librarian's day-to-day life. Before I worked at a public library,......more

I've never met the author of this book; never been to his library, never even heard of him, but I am willing to swear to his honesty and authenticity: Everything you read in it is true. Fecal-covered dildoes tossed into the bookdrop? Oh yeah, not surprising. Punk kids using the library as a base of......more

Librarians and library workers will find no surprises in this book other than a satisfaction that they are not alone. Library users on the other hand may be alternately fascinated, repelled, and touched by the stories that Mr. Borchert relates, as he delves into the kind of things that really go on......more

In my experience, any time you put a bunch of library staff in a room together, no matter what the purpose -- meeting, holiday party, professional conference, anything -- eventually the conversation will turn towards weird patron stories. This book reads like a compendium of one library worker's ent......more

sounds somewhat more interesting than it actually is… (i, at least, have managed to bite my tongue before the curse words actually emerge, or at least muttered them under my breath) Free for All: oddballs, geeks, and gangstas in the public library is a book that i saw somewhere and thought would be s......more