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Article: CLOSING THE BOOK ON A CAREER NEW YORK STATE LIBRARIAN JOSEPH SHUBERT STEPS DOWN AFTER 19 YEARS AT THE HELM.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- August 6, 1996
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Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer
Now that he's retired after 19 years as New York state librarian, one of the most coveted jobs in all of librarydom, Joseph Shubert, 67, can get back to what he really loves: reading.
On the reading chair in a third-floor study of Shubert's four-story Victorian rowhouse in Albany rests an open volume of Herman Melville's 1846 South Seas yarn ``Typee.'' Across the room sits a computer terminal linked to the Internet, on which Shubert sends electronic messages to his children and grandchildren.
Shubert straddles the ages, a person with a 19th-century sensibility who both collects leather-bound books and speaks ...