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Librarian as Hero: The Bard, The Bribe, The Bookseller, the “Cuban Cutie” and the Mystery of the Durham First Folio

By Jean O'Grady on July 13, 2011
So a man sporting Fendi shades, Gucci shoes and carrying a box of Cuban cigars walks into the Folger Shakespeare Library in DC and pulls a Shakespeare First Folio from a plastic bag and demands to see the librarian.

This is a remarkable “truth is stranger than fiction” tale. The characters and facts are dazzling,

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*Hat tip to Melville Dewey, 19th century efficiency reformer, founder of the first School of Library Economy, and inventor of the eponymous decimal classification system based on Sir Francis Bacon's outline of human knowledge.

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Jean P. O’Grady has over 30 years of experience developing strategic information initiatives for Am Law 100 law firms.

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