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The head librarian is intimidating and the library itself is a dangerous place. [26] [27] There are other fictional librarians in literature as well. Allison Carroll in Jo Walton's Among Others serves as a mentor to the main protagonist and Madam Irma Pince is the librarian at Hogwarts during the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling.
The Enemies of Books is a book on biblioclasm [1] and book preservation by the 19th-century bibliophile and book collector William Blades.The book was first published in 1880 and has been republished in different editions in 1881, 1888, [2] 1896, and 1902 and reproduced widely in electronic format in the 21st century.
In a review for Los Angeles Review of Books, Dan Hassler-Forest wrote that the title story of The Memory Librarian is a "play on Philip K. Dick’s thematic obsession with anxieties about the reliability of memories." In addition, Monáe's exploration of race and sexuality as "markers of social deviance" are a method to explore the way in which ...
Notes and Queries was first published in 1849 as a weekly periodical edited by W. J. Thoms. [2] It was founded as an academic correspondence magazine, in which scholars and interested amateurs could exchange knowledge on folklore, literature and history.
Dorothy Shea (1941–2024) – Librarian of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1988–2016) and president of the Australian Law Librarians' Association (2004–2005) [6] Jesse Shera; Louis Shores; Regina Smith – librarian at Jenkins Law Library, a membership library in Philadelphia; Wilfred I. Smith – 5th Dominion Archivist (National Archivist ...
The majority of librarians working in the U.S. are female, between the ages of 55–64, and Caucasian. [1] A 2014 study by the American Library Association of research done from 2009 to 2010 shows that 98,273 of credentialed librarians were female while 20,393 were male. 15,335 of the total 111,666 were 35 and younger and only 6,222 were 65 or older. 104,393 were white; 6,160 African American ...
Michael Rogers wrote that "it is hands-down the best overall literary reference work ever published" but that many reference librarians had probably never heard of it. [1] Choice has named the DLB an Outstanding Academic Book four times and American Library Association 's Reference and User Services Association has twice named it as an ...
William Kirkpatrick Magee (16 January 1868 – 9 May 1961), was an Irish author, editor, and librarian, who as an essayist and poet adopted the pen-name of John Eglinton. He became head librarian of the National Library of Ireland , after opposing the "cultural nationalism" of his time.