title: Confessions of a Librarian: A Memoir of Loves
author: Barbara Foster
description: Professor Barbara Foster, a mature, married, associate professor at an urban university, is the author of numerous articles and a highly regarded biography, a lecturer at universities, museums, and libraries worldwide, and was recently interviewed in the Times Literary Supplement.
zlib_text: AB-5287 LINE UP FOR THE LIBRARIAN by Steve Golden FOREWORD While the negative
  aspects of egotism and ambition are all too apparent, it is also true that for
  a man or woman to function adequately and maturely in a society, it is
  necessary to have a certain amount of healthy self-confidence. When a man or
  woman lacks self-confidence on a sexual level, it can be apparent in every
  aspect of their lives. It is often necessary to be sure of one's identity as a
  man or woman in order to be successful. Vickie is a woman who suffers from a
  lack of sexual self-assurance. Buried behind the drab, stern facade of her
  librarian job, Vickie at last realizes that it is a waste for her to hide her
  natural beauty and sensuality. Thus, it is only when she learns to appreciate
  herself and she at last breaks free of the deeply embedded strictures of her
  moralistic upbringing that she becomes a confident and successful adult. LINE
  UP FOR THE LIBRARIAN is a novel about a woman's struggle to free herself of
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