David Smith
David Smith: Librarian to the Stars
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Librarians seem like the bookish types who hang out by stacks and make friends with moldy books. But David Smith, 54, a supervising librarian in the Allen Room and the Wertheim Study at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, is apparently hobnobbing with the stars. He is their "Virgil of the New York Public Library,” Alexander Rose, author of Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring, told The New York Times, “guiding innocents and counseling the wise alike as he leads them gently away from error and toward intellectual enlightenment.” read more »
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An Unexpected, Even Ferocious
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