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GET LIT: Win a copy of Marilyn Johnson's This Book Is Overdue!

POSTED: Thursday, March 25, 2010, 7:45 PM

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Harper, Feb. 2

"In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste." So starts Marilyn Johnson's This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, which triumphs those folks we tend to think of as conservative, bespectacled professional shushers.

But they're so much more than that:

"They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us. ... [They're] pragmatic idealists who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need."

In conjunction with Johnson's reading tonight at the Free Library's Central Branch (7:30 p.m., free, 1901 Vine St., 215-567-4341, freelibrary.org), we're giving away a copy of the book to the first word nerd who can answer the following trivia question:

On what date did a fire destroy two-thirds of the volumes inside Washington, D.C.'s Library of Congress?

E-mail your answers to carolyn.huckabay@citypaper.net for a chance to win.

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