He%27s 6-foot-7 and can bench press 350 pounds He%27s in love with the novels of Mark Twain and Stephen King His book describes the nobility and gritty realities of a public library NEW YORK — For ...

Few professions are as bedevilled by stereotypes as librarianship. Even in this digital age, when many librarians are busy rebranding themselves as “information scientists” and “knowledge managers,” ...

Salt Lake City Public Library’s Josh Hanagarne writes the "World’s Strongest Librarian" blog and is the author of The Knot. He has also learned to deal with Tourette's syndrome with strength training ...

Don’t share your thoughts about librarians leading bored, desperate lives with Josh Hanagarne. As an employee at the Salt Lake City Main Library, with a specialty on third-floor volumes encompassing ...

This wildly quirky memoir of facing down his ferocious Tourette’s tics follows Hanagarne, the son of a gold miner, from a bookish Mormon upbringing in Moab, Utah, to becoming a six-foot-four ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. If someone brings a deck of cards Saturday, Josh Hanagarne will break it in half. Bend a six-penny nail? Sure, if one’s handy.

USA TODAY's Bob Minzesheimer asked Josh Hanagarne, author of the memoir, The World's Strongest Librarian (Gotham), to name his five favorite books about libraries. Hanagarne's selections and his ...