RE: Ex-Librarians in Positions of Power/We have arrived

From: Edrington, Dru (dru.edrington@puc.state.tx.us)
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 06:55:26 PST


OCLC is acknowledged as the owner of the DDC system on the inside cover of the CD.
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        From: Kitts, Kreig L. [mailto:Kreig.Kitts@troutmansanders.com]
        Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 8:42 AM
        To: Edrington, Dru
        Subject: RE: Ex-Librarians in Positions of Power/We have arrived
        
        
        Do you think OCLC is going to sue Tori Amos next?
         
        (evil chuckle)
         
        Kreig Kitts
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        Troutman Sanders LLP
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                From: Edrington, Dru [mailto:dru.edrington@puc.state.tx.us]
                Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 12:48 PM
                To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
                Subject: RE: Ex-Librarians in Positions of Power/We have arrived
                
                
                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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