Hale, Arlene. Goodbye to Yesterday (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973) 226 p.

A wealthy patron offers to donate 10,000 books to the Hendricks Public Library, and assistant librarian Heather Stevens is sent to catalog them. The head librarian is Gwendolyn Brown, "a little wren of a woman, with soft brown hair and quick blue eyes, who met the problems of the library head on with surprising strength and efficiency." (p. 4). Heather must also deal with Sherwood Snyder, who has worked in the library many years and who is jealous of Heather's rapid success. Sherwood lives alone with a pet canary amid piles of books. He is a balding, "funny little man." (p. 166). Someone steals a set of Audubon books from the library.