And Bob... I am reading a novel by Martha Cooley THE ARCHIVIST "Matthias is a rare book librarian responsible for safeguarding a sealed cache of T.S. Eliot's letters". Harriet Burdock,M.A.,C.A.(but I worked in a library for 20 years,now I work in one as an archivist!) >From: Bob Shuster <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: Bob Shuster <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Sayers on librarians >Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:34:02 -0500 > >Dear Archivists: > >in view of the recent discussion of archivist/librarian, I thought some >of you might enjoy this passage which I came across this morning in >chapter 1 of the mystery novel GAUDY NIGHT by Dorthy L. Sayers. At a >kind of alumni day at Shrewsbury College of Oxford University, some >professors and alumni are discussing other alumni: > >"You remember Miss Grubbins?" > >"Vaguely," said Phoebe. "She was Third year when we were freshers. An >excellent soul but rather earnest, and an appalling bore at College >meetings." > >"She is a very consceintious person," said Miss Lydgate, "but she had an >unfortunate knack of making every subject sound dull. It is a great >pity, because she is exceptionally sound and dependable. However, that >doesn't greatly matter in her present appointment: she holds a >librarianship somewhere...." > >Not my view of librarians, let me add. I have always found them alot >more interesting than ordinary folk, almost as interesting as archivist. > >Bob Shuster >BGC Archives > >A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the >Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. >For the terms of participation, please refer to >http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. > >To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] > In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname > *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES >To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] > >Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at > http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html > >Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>