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Image of the Librarian ------------------------- 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!) __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]