From the article:

Tami Albin was always very careful. The 11-year-old didn’t go to the library with friends. She never wrote down the call numbers of the books she was looking up. She dodged well-meaning librarians whenever possible.

She trolled the aisles, constantly in a state of childhood fear of anyone knowing she might be up to something.

She was reading anything from the tiny shelf labeled “HQ76.5.”

“Of course, librarians want to be helpful and would ask me if I needed help, and I’d run and hide,” says Albin, now 38 and a librarian in her own right at Kansas University’s Anschutz Library. “It was one of those things where it’s like a deer caught in the headlights. It’s like - blink, blink - oh my God, you know what I’m doing! I’ve been exposed! And you run off, you scamper away.”

Source: KSHB (Kansas City)

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