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How Your Library Book Gets to You

By: admin | Podcasts and Slideshows | November 18, 2009
Patrons of the Society’s library know that it has “closed stacks.” Reference Assistants retrieve your requested books and bring them to you. In this episode, Acquisitions Librarian Patrick Coleman takes us behind the scenes to see where the books are stored, and how they make their way to the reading room.
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