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• Introduction: Ad Librum • (2017) • essay by Paula Guran
• In the House of the Seven Librarians • (2006) • novelette by Ellen Klages
• The Books • (2010) • short story by Kage Baker
• Death and the Librarian • (1994) • short story by Esther M. Friesner
• In Libres • (2015) • short story by Elizabeth Bear
• The King of the Big Night Hours • [Dust Devil] • (2017) • short story by Richard Bowes (variant of King of the Big Night Hours 2007)
• Those Who Watch • (2016) • short story by Ruthanna Emrys
• Special Collections • (2015) • novelette by Norman Partridge
• Exchange • (1996) • short story by Ray Bradbury
• Paper Cuts Scissors • (2007) • novelette by Holly Black
• Summer Reading • (2012) • short story by Ken Liu
• Magic for Beginners • (2005) • novella by Kelly Link
• The Inheritance of Barnabas Wilcox • [Kyle Murchison Booth] • (2004) • short story by Sarah Monette
• The Midbury Lake Incident • (2015) • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• With Tales in Their Teeth, from the Mountain They Came • (2013) • short story by A. C. Wise
• What Books Survive • (2012) • short story by Tansy Rayner Roberts
• The Librarian's Dilemma • (2015) • short story by E. Saxey
• The Green Book • (2010) • short story by Amal El-Mohtar
• In the Stacks • (2010) • novelette by Scott Lynch
• A Woman's Best Friend • (2008) • short story by Robert Reed
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler • (2015) • short story by Xia Jia (trans. of
  寒冬夜行人^?Hándōng yèxíng rén
  Handong yexing ren
  )
• The Sigma Structure Symphony • [SETI Library] • (2012) • novelette by Gregory Benford
• The Fort Moxie Branch • (1988) • short story by Jack McDevitt
• The Last Librarian: or A Short Account of the End of the World • (2011) • short story by Edoardo Albert
• About the Authors (Ex Libris) • essay by uncredited
• About the Editor (Ex Libris) • essay by uncredited