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The book was published in 1888 by Charles L. Webster & Company. When that firm collapsed in 1894, Harper and Brothers took over the publication of all of Clemens' work. The Library of Humor was a valuable piece, containing many copyrighted works by many distinguished and popular authors. Secretary of Harper and Brothers Frederick A. Duneka had ...
This was followed by The Return of Conan the Librarian and Conan the Librarian on the Information Highway. The author of these stories is the fictitious "Hadley V. Baxendale" (a pun on the famous law case Hadley v. Baxendale). This Conan is an ordinary librarian who lives in the mythical "Information Age". [10]
The librarians added "Readmore Books" to his full name, inspired partially by the cartoon library cat Cap'n O. G. Readmore, although he was usually referred to as just "Dewey". [3] Aside from a brief episode in August 1989, when he escaped and went missing for almost a week after a janitor left a side door open at night, Dewey spent the ...
The Library is staffed by Zelda Schiff, a prim, glasses-and-cardigan-wearing librarian whose biggest concern is the possible defacement of library books. Uniquely, when creating the Australian miniseries The Librarians , co-producers and writers Wayne Hope and Robyn Butler consulted with real librarians for research and took their advice to ...
Norman D. Stevens (1932 - Dec. 15, 2018) was the director of University Libraries at the University of Connecticut and the author of A Guide to Collecting Librariana. [1] [2] [3] He is considered one of the world's greatest collectors of librariana.
Creator of The Librarians, John Rogers, noted that Dean Devlin wanted to do a television version of the Librarian movies, in the style of the revived Doctor Who series. . Unfortunately, because Noah Wyle was still doing Falling Skies, and Bob Newhart and Jane Curtin were only going to be available periodically, Rogers had to come up with a new approach, noting that Wyle did not want to be ...
It is notable for being an early example of Dr. Seuss' distinct illustration style. [citation needed] All boners in the book are anonymous. Harry Hansen writes that "presumably these lines come out of the mouths of babes". [1] Gary K. Wolfe concludes that these are humorous schoolboy mistakes. [3] Some examples: [1] "King James I wrote the Bible".
The second hero, William, is introduced by a monk who serves as the librarian at the Monastery Saint-Martin. Jacob, the third, is introduced by Aron, the butcher in Nogent-sur-Oise. Each narrator is prompted to tell their tale by their fellow travelers; as a framing device, the Inn sequences are told from the perspective of Étienne, an agent ...