The location of the stacks under the reading room was the concept of the first librarian, John Shaw Billings.

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" Jesse Nichols, a librarian on the Senate Finance Committee and the first black appointed to a clerical position in the Senate, recalled that "Senator Gore used to come in and out of the clear blue sky he would say, 'Jesse, bring me a Coca-Cola.

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Academia Barilla's many American students head first for books on American cooking, says Giancarlo Gonizzi, the librarian who classified its contents along the lines of the Dewey decimal system to help users find their way around.

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"The magician who lives in the closet called me a Muggle, " says head librarian Jen Spota, after her first day of work two years ago.

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