At Your Service

Posted by kitty pittman

on May 21, 2009M at 5:40 pm

Young Bill Young here again for the out-of-town, but on-the-job, Kitty Pittman. An interesting thing about working in a library, is that some friends expect you to become their personal librarian. And that’s OK. Gosh, after all, that’s what we’re all about in the library world — connecting people to information, resources and books.

A good friend of mine has decided to rediscover the works of novelist George V. Higgins (1939-1999), and he has solicited my help in tracking down some of the titles no longer carried in his local library. This is easy to do with a service called Interlibrary Loan. He could easily have requested these books via ILL at his local library, but, ya know, I’m his personal librarian, so I was happy to oblige.

My friend is such a fan of Higgins, he believes the author should have won a Nobel Prize. Sounds like I need to find out more about this Mr. Higgins. So, lets. . .

The New York Times‘ Featured Author Page on Higgins

The Google Book Search Page: Books by George V. Higgins

Info on the George V. Higgins Collection at the University of South Carolina

The Who’s Dating Who Page for George V. Higgins (Looks like no one has been dating this dead guy.)

The proverbial Wikipedia Page on Higgins

And, finally, here’s a photo of the gentleman:

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