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Orson Scott Cart, Meet Louisa May Alcart: Top Twenty Nicknames Librarians Have Given To Book Carts
by Roz Warren

If you work in a library, you work with book carts, so naturally you give them nicknames. You could call your faithful book cart Bumpy, Squeaky, Rusty or Tipsy.  But surely you can do better than that! Here's a list of actual nicknames librarians have bestowed upon their favorite book carts:  

Boris Cartoff  
Andrew Cartnegie
Louisa May Alcart
Orson Scott Cart 
Magna Carta 
Herman Shelfville 
Carty McCartface 
Paul McCartney 
Cartin Sheen 
Kim Kartdashian 
Wheels DeGrasse Tyson 
Cart Blanche 
Schlep 
Cartship Enterprise 
Carth Books (and his wife Trisha Cartwood) 
Bookaditch Cartabatch 
Groucho Cart 
Descartes 
Cart Vader 
Lord Voldecart 
Cartasaurus Rex  

If you're a librarian and these names inspire you to re-name the book cart in your life, please share the results in the comments section.