Scott Douglas
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url
http://www.goodreads.com/scottdouglas
born
January 01, 1978
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
website
genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Entertainment, Literature & Fiction
influences
David Foster Wallace; Thomas Pynchon; Flannery O'Connor
member since
January 2008
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Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian by Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.19 — 529 ratings — published 2008 |
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Advanced Marathoning by Pete Pfitzinger, Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2001 2 editions |
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The Library Tree by Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2007 |
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Christian Obscenity: Essays, Stories, and Other Potentially Damning Ramblings by Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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The First Cyber Death Extravaganza! A Mock Passion Play by Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Dispatches from a Public Librarian: Volume One by Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008 |
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Bill Rodgers' Lifetime Running Plan: Definitive Program for Runners of All Ages and Levels by Bill Rodgers, Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2000 |
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Running by Bill Rodgers, Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010 |
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Neural Networks for Signal Processing IX by Yu Hen Hu, Jan Larsen , Elizabeth Wilson , Scott Douglas (Goodreads author) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1999 |
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04/28
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion (Paperback) by Ernie Malik bookshelves: currently-reading |
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04/14
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Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality (Paperback) by Donald Miller bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Watchers (Paperback) by Dean Koontz |
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Scott said:
"I don't know what I was thinking when I read this book; someone told me to read it about 15 years ago, and I just now got around to it. Perhaps to a fifteen year old it's wonderful fiction, but to a 30 year old it's just plain lousy.
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PSY-COMM Volume 2 (Psy-Comm) by Jason Henderson |
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"The first book set up a great series, but the second book really fell short of what the first one built up. There was potential for some huge themes, but they just never happened.
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PSY-COMM Volume 1 (Psy-Comm) by Jason Henderson |
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Darkness Racket and Twang - Essential Listening from the Fringes of Popular and Unpopular Music (Paperback) by Alex, V Cook |
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Scott made a comment on Trudi's review of
Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
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Scott made a comment on Roland's review of
Watchmen
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Scott
said "yes" to attending the event: Louisiana Festival of Books.
date: October 04, 2008 10:04PM location: Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA, The United States description: 10 AM – 10:45 AM (House Committee Room 5) Book Talk: There’s No Sleeping on the Bathroom Floor and Other Tales from the Library Frontlines 11 AM - 11:45AM : Book Signing 2 PM – 2:45 PM (House Committee Room 1) Discussion: Blogging Is Writing, Too…Or Is It? | |||
"When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”"
— Scott Douglas
— Scott Douglas
"There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos. "
— Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian)
— Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian)
"I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.""
— Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian)
— Scott Douglas (Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian)
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"To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of the
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others."
— Scott Douglas
past and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. I
was motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others."
— Scott Douglas
"There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wants
to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that
was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,
not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians
were only as important as the community they inspired. If I
was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect
information, it would be to bring the community together and
inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for."
— Scott Douglas
to protect culture. The only thing about my pending career that
was changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,
not the librarian, that was important to the library. Librarians
were only as important as the community they inspired. If I
was going to continue with this career, my job wouldn’t be to protect
information, it would be to bring the community together and
inspire them to appreciate everything a library stands for."
— Scott Douglas
"When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?”"
— Scott Douglas
— Scott Douglas
"I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed to be trained in the art of librarianship. Sadly, this is not the case; its roots are a bit more academic."
— Scott Douglas
— Scott Douglas
