Like the shoemaker and his children, are librarians, those paragons of order, neglectful of this virtue when out of the public eye? Consider the tops of their desks in their private offices. Are they without clutter, with stacked archipelagos of papers neatly alphabetized or chronologized and symmetrically arranged? Or are they magnets for congeries of chaos, papers and other material higgledy-piggledy--ads, unchecked-out books from the collection, memos that have outlived their usefulness, doodled notes, book orders of indeterminate age, freebies from conferences, bookmarks, various containers, 3-ring notebooks, unwrapped cd's and dvd's, office gear, personal keepsakes, eating amenities and the crumbly aftermath of hasty meals, what is that doing there's, and so that's where that's been's?
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