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John Rossi: My love affair with libraries and librarians John Rossi November 14, 2025 November 13, 2025

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As a teacher for over fifty years, libraries and archives have been my second home. When I grew up in the years after WWII, there was no library in my neighborhood of Olney. While my family had a deep respect for education — one of my aunts had gone to college and even had a Master’s Degree — they kept few books in the house. The only titles I can remember were my copy of Don Winslow of the Navy and a well-thumbed copy of Forever Amber which was considered hot stuff in 1948.

There was a small book shelf set aside for my twenty-volume set of The Book of Knowledge which was purchased wh

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