How about the new Tori Amos CD - Tales of a Librarian - in which all 20 tracks are classified and cross-referenced according to the Dewey Decimal system?
Dru Edrington
Library Manager
Public Utility Commission
Austin, TX 78711-3326
512-936-7075
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Marylin Raisch
Baby, we have ARRIVED.
Marylin Johnson Raisch, M.Litt.(Oxon.), J.D., M.L.S.
International and Foreign Law Librarian
Bora Laskin Law Library
Faculty of Law
78 Queen's Park
Toronto, ON Canada M5S 2C5
marylin.raisch@utoronto.ca
ph: (416) 946-5924
fax: (416) 978-8396
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Jerry_Stephens@ca10.uscourts.gov
Sent: November 20, 2003 9:16 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Ex-Librarians in Positions of Power
An interesting letter was posted to another listserv. This letter asked a somewhat rhetorical (maybe even apochryphal?) question. The letter writer asked:
"What sort of society would we have if ex-librarians or IT pros got into power?"
The letter writer suggested that among the "ex-librarians" are Casanova, Hubert Humphrey, Glenda Jackson, Mao Tse Tung, Laura Bush and, Superman's birth mother.
I can accept most of the letter writer's suggested names. I know that Hubert Humphrey had been a teacher, but was he ever a librarian in any fashion?
Still, the question is an interesting one. It's a much more interesting question than whether or not society views librarians in any stereotypical fashon. It's an interesting quetion even if one were to focus only on librarians and leave out entirely IT pros.
Can anyone suggest other "ex-librarians" or even former or one-time librarians who might be added to this list. Definitions of "power" are, of course, open to individual interpretation.
Jerry E. Stephens
U.S.Court of Appeals
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
"A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000 word document and calls it a brief." -- Franz Kafka
email: jerry_stephens@ca10.uscourts.gov
voice: 405-609-5460
fax: 405-609-5461
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