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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 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 ...
Image credits: youngpoorandhappy As for the audience’s takeaway, Dave wrote: “I hope people take away the fact that everyone's allowed to make art. I think a lot of people see artists and ...
science humor book by Eric Schulman: CC BY-ND-NC 1.0: Archimedes Palimpsest: 3rd century BC: 2008: reconstructed and released by OPenn as Free Cultural Works: CC BY [8] [9] [10] Free Culture: 2004: by Lawrence Lessig (the first CC licensed book released by a major mainstream publisher, Penguin Books) CC BY-NC 1.0 [11] Freesouls: 2008: 2010 ...
These include a marriage between two people with a 3-month old baby, a Black fellow librarian, an attack on a librarian by a vagrant, and small details, such as a request for a particular magazine because of a baby's teething issues. The claims caused what was sometimes called a "literary scandal" during the last months of 2019. [22]
[1] Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan. After Morgan died in 1913, Greene continued as librarian for his son, Jack Morgan , and in 1924 was named the first director of the Pierpont Morgan Library .
[1] [2] The Harvard Lampoon is the world's third longest-running continually published humor magazine, after the Swedish Blandaren (1863) and the Swiss Nebelspalter (1875). The organization also produces occasional humor books (the best known being the 1969 J. R. R. Tolkien parody Bored of the Rings ) and parodies of national magazines such as ...
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.