And don't forget Marcel Duchamp; he worked in a Paris library while trying
not to be an artist.
Alexis Curry
Image of the Librarian
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Regarding the current discussion about the image of the librarian. How
about a few role models - famous people who have been librarians - that the
profession could point to as examples. Here are a few:
Casanova
Mao Tse-Tung
J.Edgar Hoover
Jorge Luis Borges
Hector Berlioz
August Strindberg
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Philip Larkin
The knowledge that Casanova was a librarian could alone forever alter the
public perception of the librarian. Now if we could find that Madonna was
once a librarian...
Sources:
Literature, libertines and Lenin's wife: famous people and libraries. A Web
site compiled by University of South Australia Library. This contains many
other famous librarians
[http://www.library.unisa.edu.au/papers/famouslb.htm]
Famous Librarians. A Web site compiled by Brooke Weston City Technology
College
[http://www.bwctc.northants.sch.uk/website/pages/infocentres/lc_famous.html]
Chris Mees
Editor of design and applied arts index (a one-time librarian who, if the
bottom ever falls out of the indexing market, might become a librarian
again!)
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