Library Spotlight: What Would a Librarian Read?

Among the many questions patrons ask the staff at the , a common theme is help in finding a good book to read. That's why they say the new feature at the library, staff favorites, makes sense.

"The books fly off the shelves," library employee Erin Schroeder said. "People think, 'If somebody else likes it, I might like it too.' If a librarian likes it, maybe it's better than a dimestore novel."

If the range of variety in genre is any indication, that the library boasts a diverse staff full of personality may be a fair conclusion. They picked short story collections and full length novels, biographies and works of fiction, emerging new authors and perennially successful ones.

Neil Gaiman's award-winning The Graveyard Book is there, along with Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger, who also wrote The Time Traveler's Wife.

The classics are represented, with Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice among them. And contemporary authors like Dean Koontz, whose Breathless was a staff pick, and Laura Moriarty, whose The Center of Everything was also selected.

For her own recommendation, Schroeder picked I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, which she said differed from the movie of the same name.

"He's one of my favorite authors," she said. "It's a bunch of little stories, which I like."