We are having a 90th birthday party next week for a woman where I work. She finds the lost books and has an amazing knack for it. In my 18 years at this library, I have found exactly 1 book after she had searched and didn't find it, and it was in an off-site repository. She moves slower these days, and I think she may be part-time now, but the job is definitely important to her.
Oh, and in general, taxpayers make the most unreasonable employers. Since state workers are not permitted to unionize where I live, we just deal with the turnover and underfunding as best we can.
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