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While at another library for a meeting, the Zen Librarian overheard a patron asking at the Readers' Advisory desk, "What's the best book you have in the library?" "All of our books are the best," replied the librarian at the desk. On hearing this, the Zen Librarian was enlightened. Whenever patrons said they had searched Google and didn't find the information they wanted, the Zen Librarian would smack them on the head with the latest issue of Punk Planet. The Zen Librarian asked, "Who is it who has both the ancient library of Alexandria and the library of Unseen University as her servants?" A retired patron visited the library to look at The Value Line every week. Each time, the Zen Librarian told him, "When you have The Value Line in your hands, I will give it to you. When you don't have it, I will take it away." While selecting some books from review journals, the Zen Librarian remarked, "Working in the library without forming any attachment to books or the words in them is the true way."

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