Tuesday, July 05, 2005

Famous Librarians

Did you know that J Edgar Hoover (Cataloguer for the Library of Congress before he became an FBI agent)and Bat-Girl (the comic book character) were librarians? Also both were involved in law enforcement: Hoover would find out who had library overdues and Bat Girl would bring them to justice (Kapow!).
This site: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~hblack/famouslibrarians.htm
lists some famous/infamous librarians. The cliched image of librarians is a staple of many so called 'creative works' but two of the most interesting portrayals of librarians come from Peter Sellers as a Welsh public librarian ('Only two can play') and Bette Davis as a librarian in a small town who refuses to withdraw a book and is branded a communist('Storm Center'). Has anyone out there seen them?

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