librarians

Presents an introduction to libraries, including what they are, what they contain, who works there, and the types of activities that take place in a library. Includes a photo quiz at the end and a list of key words.

Simple text and photographs present what librarians are, where they work and what they do.

Describes the types of tasks librarians perform and how they help people who visit the library. Includes color photographs and a picture glossary.

Fourteen-year-old Anthony Monday of Hoosac, Minnesota, and his friend Miss Eells, the Hoosac librarian, try to stop an evil wizard from turning the world into an icy wasteland.

While helping his family in their work as migrant laborers far from their home, Tomas finds an entire world to explore in the books at the local public library.

Due to her involvement in a set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious Library. But Irene's longtime nemesis, Alberich, has once again been making waves across multiple worlds, and, this time, his goals are quite large: he aims to destroy the entire Library; and Irene with it.

Working in an alternate version of Victorian London, Librarian-spy Irene is collecting important fiction for the mysterious Library and blending in nicely with the local culture. But when her apprentice, Kai, a dragon of royal decent, is kidnapped by the Fae, it could incite a devastating conflict between the forces of chaos and order. Irene will have to team up with a local Fae leader to travel deep into a version of Venice filled with dark magic, and save her friend before he becomes the first casualty of a catastrophic war.

Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, a shadowy organization that collects important works of fiction from all of the different realities. Most recently, she and her enigmatic assistant Kai have been sent to an alternative London.

"... discusses school librarians as leaders in educational technology to remain viable in the schools of the future"--Provided by publisher.

"[Relates the] story of Alia Muhammad Baker, a librarian who preserved Iraq's history by saving thousands of books from being destroyed during the Iraq War."--Provided by publisher.