This is what a librarian looks like: a celebration of libraries, communities, and access to information

Introduction: Alexandria is still burning

Guest author: Neil Gaiman

America's first lending library: The Library Company of Philadelphia

Guest author: Amy Dickinson

A library of mud: Steve Tinney and the Tablet Room at the University of Pennsylvania

Guest author: Cory Doctorow

To serve everybody: Nick Higgins, Rikers Island, and the Brooklyn Public Library

Guest author: Jeff Vandermeer

The little library that tried: Mary Anne Antonellis and the M. N. Spear Memorial Library, Shutesbury, Massachusetts

Guest author: John Scalzi

History you can hold: Julie Bartlett Nelson and the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library, Northampton Massachusetts

Guest author: Jude Deveraux

Guest author: Amanda Palmer

The American Girl: Briony Zlomke Beckstrom and the Franklin Public Library, Franklin, Wisconsin

Guest author: Nancy Pearl

Bringing the library to you: Bretagne Byrd and the Lewis & Clark Bookmobile, Montana

Guest author: Paula Poundstone

Guest author: Sara Farizan

A Public Space: Tina Ely and the Greybull Public Library, Wyoming

Guest author: Peter Sagal

The Cathedral of Learning: Candice Mack and the Los Angeles Central Library

Guest author: Samira Ahmed

Archiving the past: Texas A&M and the University of Iowa: plus George R. R. Martin gives me some thoughts on libraries

Guest author: Sangu Mandanna

Afterword: Home again.