Edghill, Rosemary.  The Cloak of Night and Daggers (New York: Daw Books, 1997) 345 p.

Librarian Ruth Marlow continues to pursue her elf in this third book of The Twelve Treasures. Another elf named Gauvain Makindeor who is the Royal Librarian of Chandrakar seeks his treasure. Makindeor finds the precious Book of Airts and hides it in one of the many libraries in upstate New York. One of these is the Basingstoke College Library. The librarian here is Mrs. Dean who has not left the library in 25 years. “Barely five feet tall, she wore a long-sleeved midcalf-length dress in some dark flowered pattern. There was a paisley shawl around her shoulders, clasped firmly in place with an enormous jet and amber brooch. Her steel-gray hair was done up into a thick, hairpin-studded bun from which protruded a number of yellow #2 pencils, and she wore little wire-rimmed glasses that made her resemble drawings Holly had seen of Miss Manners.” (p. 198). Two minor characters are also librarians: Carol Goodchild and Penny Canaday.