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School librarian mentors: Taking candidates from practice to perfection
Many decades ago, school libraries were almost an afterthought, and the librarian — almost always a woman portrayed with a stifled smile, an ever-present lifting of the eyebrows, glasses perched on the end of her nose and a “you talk, you die” look — was …