The Brown Bag Book Group is a great opportunity to get together (bring a lunch) and talk about a book the group has read. Make new friends and relax for a while!

This month we will discuss  This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson.

Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper, disks, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians—they can help!

Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that, in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us—expert and hopelessly baffled alike—can get along without human help. And not just any help: we need librarians, the only ones who can save us from being buried by the digital age. This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals—from the blunt and obscenely funny bloggers to the quiet, law-abiding librarians gagged by the FBI. These are the pragmatic idealists who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need.

If you are interested, please contact interlibraryloan@barringtonlibrary.com with your full name and phone number so we can get you on the list to get a copy of the book via inter-library loan one month prior to the meeting. 

This is Part One of a discussion sponsored by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities Council through the Barrington Library Foundation.