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
>
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