Book-collectors are divided into twelve or thirteen classes. There are also, in relation to books, certain sub-classes of human beings, who will some say be investigated and explained. These include the families or individuals who admit into their dwellings no other books except the Six Well-Bound Volumes permitted by interior decorators as the literary ration of a home. These are precisely placed on a table, between a pair of handsome “book-ends” (so called because it is an end to all normal use of books when you acquire them) and may be employed for pressing flowers, or as a place in which to conceal incriminating documents.”
— Edmund Lester Pearson, Books in Black or Red, 1923
Michael Sauers is the Director of Logan Library in Logan, UT. Prior to this he was one of the founding staff and Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
Unless otherwise stated, all opinions are my own and are not to be considered those of the City of Logan, UT.
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