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Wow!  I wish I had that kind of time on my hands...
As per an earlier suggestion, can we move this discussion off the list?
--shannon

On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Max Marmor <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

>  Dear fellow-Arlisians,
>
>
>
> I have just dutifully joined the Facebook "Arlisians" group, but I have to
> ask:  Are any Arlisians out there at all concerned that "Arlisia" is
> actually a real word with quite distinctive - and perhaps not entirely
> desirable –connotations for us and for our profession?
>
>
>
> According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (11th edition, article on
> "Palaeobotany), "Arlisia" are "curious, transversely-ribbed [floral]
> fossils."  Now, colleague, I ask you: Do you see many curious,
> transversely-ribbed fossils at ARLIS/NA meetings?  Or for that matter in
> your art library (on your side of the reference desk, that is; bolder souls
> may jump in to defend our patrons from slander)?
>
>
>
> Now I wouldn't want to deny that with a bit of effort we could try to find
> our likeness in the dictionary definition of "Arlisia."  While the EB writer
> surely used "curious" in the pejorative sense (i.e., odd), we tend, like all
> members of the genus homo bibliothecarius, to be curious in the good sense;
> and thus even those of us who don't regard ourselves as odd might qualify as
> "curious."  And while I don't think a librarian anatomist would classify us
> as "transversely-ribbed" in the technical sense – that technical term is
> mostly applied to plants, plumbing pipes, and – let us be candid – various
> exotica for sale in, for example, the West Village – we do of course have
> ribs more or less perpendicularly-disposed vis-à-vis our spines.  Similarly,
> no one would deny that some of us are more "floral" than others, nor that
> some few of us are, in our later years for the most part, described –
> uncharitably if not necessarily altogether inaccurately – as "fossils."  But
> do we really want to work this hard to deserve being described as "curious,
> transversely-ribbed [floral] fossils"?
>
>
>
> Now it's also worth reflecting that the word "Arlisia" is actually plural –
> and thus if we insist upon being associated with the word, we should really
> call ourselves, as a group, "Arlisia" not Arlisians, should reserve
> "Arlisian" for adjectival uses, and should find another name (Arlisium?) for
> the realm we plan to inhabit.  And perhaps Arlisium should be consigned to
> Second Life where few palaeobotanists will discover it and add to the
> already rich thesaurus of stereotypes about librarians.  We might even be
> able to market bottled water "fresh from Arlisian wells" and build an
> endowment for ARLIS/NA.
>
>
>
> Respectfully submitted by
>
>
>
> Max Marmor
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