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This quote was floating around on Fiction_L last week.

So where do you go to find a researcher who is intelligent, imaginative, skilled in the use of computers, devoted to discovering the truth, and knowledgeable about science, technology, history, and literature, and who usually works for dirt and gets credit for nothing? After lunch I drove to the city library on Main and asked the reference librarian ...." From James Lee Burke's novel Last Car to Elysian Fields (Simon and Schuster, 2003).