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Gryphon's Word of the Day, April 28, 2008
The word of the day for April 28, 2008 is "librarian" — noun — : a specialist in the care or management of a library.
At crew meeting last week, my supervisor showed us a YouTube video called Shift Happens. It is about the paradigm shift from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. It mentions how many Google searches occur per day and asks who answered those questions before Google. The answer is librarians.
My sister and sister-in-law are both librarians. Mother would have loved for me to be a librarian, too, but I like to read too much. (Plus, I hated shelving books as a library page. It hurt to put them up without reading them.) Don't get me wrong, librarians read—voraciously, omnivorously, religiously. However, I am not willing to read stuff that I don't want to, solely for the knowlege to tell someone else where to find answers they don't have the wherewithal to look up themselves. Yet, I find that I must do too much of that as a design tech, which is drafting and configuration control—not literary research.
Our quote for the day is from Stephen Sommers, Lloyd Fonvielle and Kevin Jarre; The Mummy; 1999:
Evelyn: I am proud of what I am.
Rick: And what is that?
Evelyn: I, sir, am a librarian.
;^) Jan
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... happened upon this old entry ... I volunteer shelving books at my local library ... it has ALWAYS been a place where I can 'find myself', no matter what town I am in ..!
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Funny thing thath Jan I always said I would like to be a librarian,,,, But felt that the silence would drive me mad....what a change from todays libraries that are full of people speaking children shouting computers going ping !! I always knew I had been born 50 years to soon !! Love Sybil xx
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Gosh, I would never be able to shelve books without reading them either. LOL Thanks for putting your Weekly Sentence Award in your sidebar. It looks pretty =)!! I have been checking out your blog for sometime. You and I are a lover of words. Have you ever read the book Mother Tongue? You would like it. I forget the author. I will get it to you if you would like. Take care, Jan! Love, Val xox
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One of my favourite places ,that and a book shop ...love Jan xx
5/12/08 3:21 PM
"Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Don't ever p$$$ one off." --Spider Robinson in The Callahan Touch
And for the record, when the library is closed for the day, the next obvious choice is to call the local bookstore. Here is a hint, kids. Look up the information yourself. Otherwise some wisecracker bookstore clerk will lie to you. (Hee, not that I would know anything about why some child put down that Frankenstein was written by Poe)