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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.
Ralph R. Shaw Award for Library Literature Presented to an American librarian for an outstanding contribution to library literature published during the three years preceding the presentation. 1959-1976 Print ALA Libraries and librarianship Randolph Caldecott Medal: Awarded to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Ingrid Parent – librarian at the University of British Columbia; Charles V. Park – librarian at Central Michigan University; Lotsee Patterson – librarian, educator, and founder of the American Indian Library Association; Nancy Pearl – librarian and author; Charles Peters – music cataloger at William & Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana ...
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.
The public librarian: a report of the public library inquiry (Columbia University Press, 1952) Carrier, Esther Jane. Fiction in public libraries, 1876-1900 (Scarecrow Press, 1965) Garrison, Dee. Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876-1920. (Free Press (1979)) ISBN 0-02-693850-2; Jones, Theodore.
Nancy Pearl (born January 12, 1945) is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and the former executive director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library. [1]
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.
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 ...