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In 2018, he was hired as a part-time shelver by the DeKalb County Library System and was later promoted to a $16-an-hour position mostly handling book loans to and from other libraries.

From New York Times • Dec. 13, 2022

“I can remember from my earliest days in the libraries at M.I.T. as a shelver, shelving those blessed volumes.”

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2013