[WEB4LIB] Re: Librarian Stereotype

[Roy Tennant]

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At 7:51 AM -0700 8/27/01, Daniel Messer wrote:
>rich at richardwiggins.com wrote:
>
>>  At the Special Libraries Association meeting this past June, there 
>>was a session called "Bat Girl Was a Librarian, and So Was 
>>Casanova!!!"  The session covered the image of the librarian in pop 
>>culture and literature.  I didn't attend the session but my wife 
>>did and found it insightful and entertaining.  The speaker was 
>>Alison Hall from Carleton University.  Not sure if her slides are 
>>online but maybe she could be persuaded to share.
>
>Bloody good! I forgot about BatGirl too. :) I think the original 
>Book of Lists had a listing (Well what would you expect to find in a 
>book of lists?) that laid out some famous librarians. Here's the 
>list from the book (c) 1977 William Morrow and Company, Inc., New 
>York:
>
>1) Gottfried Von Leibniz
>2) David Hume
>3) Casanova (Giovanni Giacomo Casanova de Seingalt)
>4) August Strindberg
>5) Pope Pius XI (Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti)
>6) Sam Walter Foss
>7) Archibald MacLeish
>8) Mao Tse Tung
>9) J. Edgar Hoover
>10) John Braine
>
>     Just a little trivia for your Monday morning, courtesy of your GWD. :)
>
>Dan
>
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