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Please join us for a very special author event welcoming Bay Area legend Dorothy Lazard discussing her new book “Behind the Desk at the Main: A Librarian’s Memoir” on Saturday, September 19th at 4pm.***This is also our Memoir Book Club pick for October (meeting October 15th!)***
Dorothy is one of my favorite people I have ever had the honor to work with, and it is an honor to have her at Alibi to talk about her latest book! And people are talking about it, from KQED (https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101914907/dorothy-lazard-on-the-ambitious-mission-of-libraries-and-the-people-that-make-them-function ) to Reddit forums, and Azar Nafisi, author of Read Dangerously and Reading Lolita in Tehran says, “This wonderful book appeals to the heart as well as to the mind, challenging the dark times we live in.”
So please join us and come meet this celebrated librarian, historian, and Bay Area icon on Saturday at 4!
“When Dorothy Lazard became a public librarian, she returned to the building that had shaped her life from childhood. At the flagship branch (“the Main”) of the Oakland Public Library, she connected with her hometown to a degree that few people experience. Helping her fellow community members and ultimately becoming the keeper of Oakland’s public history archives, she witnessed the joys and dilemmas that shape one of the most diverse cities in the US. In Behind the Desk at the Main, Lazard takes readers through the day-to-day life of library work with love, wit, and candor. As the cracks in American society grow and our public institutions are strained to the breaking point, libraries remain the cherished containers of our ideals: They are places of curiosity, imagination, memory, and togetherness. Lazard reveals the pressures that library workers face—from economic crises to book bans and political upheaval—as they uphold these ideals in a fractured world. Filled with humor and urgency, Behind the Desk at the Main is a testament to the power of books and community in a time of division.”
— Heyday Books
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624 Marin St, Vallejo, CA, United States
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