"Librarians today unlike stereotype"
James Kibo Parry
>
> posted without permission from
> http://www.washtimes.com/culture/culture1.html 10/29/99
> "Profile of today's librarian skews politically, socially liberal
>
> By Julia Duin
> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>
> Libraries used to be quiet, musty temples to the god of reading,
...until Don Saklad showed up yelling, "WHERE ARE THE SECRET BOOKS?"
every five minutes.
> whose rites were listed in card catalogues overseen by the local book deity;
> actually, the stereotypical bespectacled head librarian with a pencil
> through her bunned hair.
Now the stereotype has changed in that MEN are allowed to work at libraries.
(Although, nobody's told the authors of the MMPI.)
I think it would be funny if the stereotype still held because then we'd
have guys walking around with beehive hairdos and pink eyeglasses on a chain.
> Today, they are Grand Central Stations of culture,
I agree that the Boston Public Library smells funny, but I can't find
the Nathan's hot dog stand.
> stocked with computers capable of downloading the entire filth and fancy
> of the Internet,
I'M TIRED OF THOSE OLD-TYME LIBRARIES WHOSE COMPUTERS COULD ONLY HOLD
HALF OF ALL THE FILTH OF THE INTERNET!
Also, I can't find the fancy of the Internet. Is it behind the hot dog stand
with the secret books that Don Saklad can't see?
> and targeted for such by radio talk-show hostess Laura Schlessinger.
> What she may not realize is how librarians are a changing breed,
> often politically liberal and apt to invite speakers such as Gloria
> Steinem, Cornell West, Marian Wright Edelman, Deborah Prothrow-Stith
> and Patricia Schroeder to their semiannual conferences of the American
> Library Association. Retired Army Gen. Colin Powell keynoted the
> convention in June.
> They are less than straitlaced in the sexuality department, as
> evidenced in columnist Will Manley's librarian sex survey
"The Manley Library Sex Survey".
I would never have made up that meme in a million years.
It's high time to revise the MMPI.
(On the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the question
"I think I would like the world of a librarian" counts towards being
gay if a guy says 'true'. I assume it counts towards being lesbian
if a woman says 'false' because we all know that all women want to be
librarians, just like all gay people.)
> in American Libraries, the house organ
must... reach... into... Obvious Bag... can't... resist... must...
fight... obvious... urge... Help me, Spock!
> of the 58,000-member American Library Association.
> Dubbed the "Kinsey of Libraryland,
I wonder what position Don Saklad holds in Libraryland.
> Mr. Manley's 1993 survey revealed that 91 percent of his 2,797 respondents
> had read "The Joy of Sex,"
I assume they mean that 91 percent CLAIMED to have read it, unless he
actually asked them a hard question about where the G-spot is.
I'm sure just as many claim to not watch TV except for PBS and
The Learning Channel.
> 82 percent believed Anita Hill told the truth, 78 percent of the
> female librarians polled said they had been sexually harassed by a
> patron and 61 percent had rented an X-rated video.
Yes, but which one did they all rent? I suppose I could figure out which
one by going to Blockbuster and looking for the dog-eared one.
Also, if this is true, why do libraries not lend X-rated videos?
CENSORSHIP! CENSORSHIP! CENSORSHIP! BURN DOWN THE LIBRARIES THAT
DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PORN! HOW DARE THEY CARRY ALL THE FILTH OF THE INTERNET
WITHOUT LETTING ME TAKE PORN HOME?
> Forty percent felt that Playboy magazine should be in the public
> library, 22 percent thought there should be condom dispensers in
> library restrooms
I will wager the percentage of libraries who actually put condoms in
the library restrooms is a little lower than 22 percent.
Personally, I think it's a bad idea because it would encourage MORE
people to have hot sex on top of the public Xerox machine.
> and just 6 percent believe AIDS is a punishment from God. There's nothing
> to the rumor that a librarian has posed for Penthouse, reports Louisiana
> librarian Stacey Hathaway-Bell in the August 1998 issue of American Libraries.
I'm glad librarians are doing such important work as reading all the back
issues of "Penthouse".
Besides, it wasn't "Penthouse", it was "Players".
> But the Manley survey reported 24 percent of the librarians would pose
> nude in Playboy or Playgirl for $1 million.
I see, so they're 76% more prudish than normal people who don't already
have a million dollars.
How many librarians would pose nude for $1,000,000 if it were donated
to buying copies of "Playboy" for the library?
> "The story is repeated with relish in the profession because it
> defies the bun-wearing old-maid view of librarians that our society for
> some reason embraces," she writes. "Too bad it's probably not true."
That could be fixed.
> The typical librarian, according to the ALA, is over 45 years old
> (66 percent), is female (73 percent) and white (91 percent). Instead of
> fighting for the right to shelve J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye,"
> she tries to stock copies of Madonna's book "Sex."
Oh, yeah, that's a good one for the library because it never gets stolen
or has pages ripped out and it's real cheap to replace.
> She is also tolerant toward homosexuality, reports Mark Herring,
> the dean of library services at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, S.C.
> Mr. Herring, who has spent 20 years in the business, first got the
> hint of this trend when, in 1981, the independent magazine Library
> Journal ran an almost full page of ads for homosexual bars in
> conjunction with an upcoming ALA conference in San Francisco.
> "Why in the world would a professional association be doing this?"
> he asks. "When the American Bar Association meets in San Francisco, do
> they publish locations of all the gay bars for their members?"
Yes, if they're the American Gay Bar Association.
> In Library Journal's June 1999 issue touting the ALA's recent New
> Orleans conference, a nightlife survey touted the lesbian bar Rubyfruit
> Jungle
...isn't that the name of the default iBook desktop pattern?
> and other hotspots for homosexuals.
> "It's the new cause celebre," Mr. Herring says. "When you talk to
> individual librarians, you find people who are squeamish about this.
> The bespectacled, dour-faced librarian has been replaced by something
> out of Playboy -- or that is the perception they'd like to convey.
> Actually, there's still a lot more of the former kind of that librarian
> around."
> The ALA was the first professional organization to have a
> homosexual caucus, according to the book "Reclaiming the American
> Library Past" by Susan Hildenbrand. The association has an annual "Gay,
> Lesbian and Bisexual Book Awards" contest and Library Journal
> prominently listed "Lesbian and Gay Book Month" for June in its May 15
> issue.
> "You think to yourself: Who is buying this except individual
> gays?" Mr. Herring said. "I can't think of very many public libraries
> that would buy this stuff."
Yeah, they're all too busy buying those art books about Robert Mapplethorpe
to have time to buy any GAY books.
> Public libraries have been under fire this year for opposing
> Internet filters, which the ALA deems impediments to free speech. For
> instance, when the Loudoun County, Va., library system tried to impose
> filters on its computers, articles in American Libraries called the
> policy "rigid" and "draconian."
I feel that Internet filters are really
and
with a tire iron, and
a
their legs.
> The association got broadsided this year for this stance by Miss
> Schlessinger, who termed the ALA as having "done something evil." She
> was particularly miffed at the ALA Web site (www.ala.org), which sports
> a "teen hoopla" page for teen-agers.
Yeah! Hoopla is EVIL! Teenage hoopla is EVILER!
Tee-hee, I said the non-word "eviler" in a library context.
THAT'S THE EVILEST THING I'VE EVER DONE!
> One of the links is to the "Go Ask Alice" Web site maintained by
> Columbia University, which has a long list of explicit questions and
> answers on sex, sexual experimentation and sex toys. Judging by the
> questions posed by self-identified virgins,
"Self-identified virgins" might be lying. Internet users should have
their virginity certified by an independent agency.
It wouldn't be that hard:
I think I would like the work of a librarian. ( true / false )
I enjoy watching "Star Trek". ( true / false )
There, I have revised the MMPI from a 600-question general-purpose
psychodiagnostic tool to a two-question probe which determined whether
you are a gay librarian, a gay library patron, a virgin, or a gay virgin.
Librarians should hand out little cards with that little two-by-two
matrix on it like the Libertarians do, because, hey, "Librarian"
and "Libertarian" are spelled so close to each other that we could
just combine the two so as to free up a word in the dictionary for
something new. Because we keep inventing stuff but the dictionary's full.
> many of the users are obviously young.
> The ALA says "Teen Hoopla" is for ages 12-18.
NINETEEN-YEAR-OLDS ARE NOT TEENAGERS IN THE BIZARRE WORLD OF LIBRARIANS!
> The same site also has a spirituality link to sites on Buddhism, the
> Foursquare Gospel Church, Scientology, Teen Missions, Christianity Online
> and Young Life, a Christian group.
OH NO! BUDDHISM IS EVEN MORE SATANIC THAN SCIENTOLOGY!
KIDS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO READ ABOUT RELIGION! BAN THE BIBLE!
> The ALA released a statement in May defending "Alice" as "factual"
> and "straightforward," adding that "if young people are not interested
> or not ready for certain material, they won't read it."
> "The reports have been highly exaggerated," says ALA spokeswoman
> Linda Wallace. "[Looking up porn sites] is not what young children do
> naturally."
At least not ones under the age of three.
> Mr. Herring suggests the ALA ignores the strength of teen-age
> libido.
He then suggested that the restrooms should dispense junior-size condoms.
> "I wouldn't want any 12-year-old of mine looking at it," he says.
> ALA policy is to ask parents to let their children explore
> libraries' contents without any restrictions. It sponsors a Banned
> Books Week every year, with displays such as the banned-book table at
> the Arlington Central Library in Northern Virginia. About 20 books were
> lined up below a poster of Mark Twain behind bars,
...BEHIND GAY BARS!!!
> as his "Huckleberry Finn" has been deemed too racist or sexist by various
> groups.
To say nothing about the fact that it's obviously gay because that
bar was named "Rubyfruit" and he's named "Huckleberry". If you don't
believe me, look at Huckleberry Hound, who is PASTEL BLUE, and PASTEL
is the color of gay pride!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go try to figure out which of the
Teletubbies are gay because clearly SOME but not ALL of them are.
> In its monthly "Censorship Watch" column, the January 1998 issue
> of American Libraries included a disapproving note on efforts to ban
> "Daddy's Wedding," a sequel to the homosexual-friendly "Daddy's
> Roommate" in Allen County, Ind. The magazine was unhappy that Indiana
> state Sen. Dick Worman was trying to get it off the shelves.
Maybe Senator Dick Worman will do like Pee-wee Herman and try to
get it off in court.
> The battle continued this spring. Chester High School in Chester,
> S.C., has been fighting a parent who has gathered 1,000 signatures to
> remove the novel "Beginner's Love" by Norma Klein from its stacks. The
> book has been accused of having objectionable language and graphic sex.
What is this world coming to? There's never before been a book with
a dirty word in it! Next thing you know, respected authors like
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. will be drawing pictures of underpants in their books
to save us the trouble!
> The state attorney general has informed the Chester County School Board
> the book can be removed without violating the First Amendment.
> "Because of the taciturnity associated with librarians and
> libraries, not much attention has been given to this," Mr. Herring
> says. "And now they're into this insanity like no Internet filtering.
> If you have a young child and you send them to the public library,
> there's nothing to prevent them from hopping on line and looking at
> everything under the sun."
Except for the fact that there is a waiting line nine hours long to
use the broken slow computers sharing the bandwidth of one modem.
-- K.
Eagerly awaiting Don Saklad's
answer on the secret hot dogs.
Jennifer Erica Sweda
: In soc.libraries.talk, mya...@erols.com wrote:
: >
: > posted without permission from
: > http://www.washtimes.com/culture/culture1.html 10/29/99
: > "Profile of today's librarian skews politically, socially liberal
: >
: > By Julia Duin
: > THE WASHINGTON TIMES
: >
: > Libraries used to be quiet, musty temples to the god of reading,
: Now the stereotype has changed in that MEN are allowed to work at libraries.
: (Although, nobody's told the authors of the MMPI.)
: I think it would be funny if the stereotype still held because then we'd
: have guys walking around with beehive hairdos and pink eyeglasses on a chain.
Clearly, you've never been to my library.
: Yeah! Hoopla is EVIL! Teenage hoopla is EVILER!
: Tee-hee, I said the non-word "eviler" in a library context.
: THAT'S THE EVILEST THING I'VE EVER DONE!
Pants.
: I think I would like the work of a librarian. ( true / false )
: I enjoy watching "Star Trek". ( true / false )
Yup, that's right. Pants.
: Except for the fact that there is a waiting line nine hours long to
: use the broken slow computers sharing the bandwidth of one modem.
: -- K.
: Eagerly awaiting Don Saklad's
: answer on the secret hot dogs.
I could tell you a few things about Don Saklad's pants...
Poot Rootbeer
>Kibo sez:
>: I think it would be funny if the stereotype still held because
>: then we'd have guys walking around with beehive hairdos and pink
>: eyeglasses on a chain.
>
So is your library named after Linus, or Lucy?
(THE JOKE IS THE LIBRARY JENNIFER WORKS AT IS NAMED VAN PELT-DIETRICH.)
>I could tell you a few things about Don Saklad's pants...
Eeew, please don't.
-Poot
And be wary of short bald men in capes
who want to use the internet terminals.
Jennifer Erica Sweda
: >: then we'd have guys walking around with beehive hairdos and pink
: >: eyeglasses on a chain.
: >Clearly, you've never been to my library.
: So is your library named after Linus, or Lucy?
IT's named after me.
robert lindsay
James "Kibo" Parry <ki...@world.std.com> wrote:
>In soc.libraries.talk, mya...@erols.com wrote:
>>
>> posted without permission from
>> http://www.washtimes.com/culture/culture1.html 10/29/99
>> "Profile of today's librarian skews politically, socially liberal
Strong words coming from a paper owned by moonies.
>> By Julia Duin
>> THE WASHINGTON TIMES
>>
>> Libraries used to be quiet, musty temples to the god of reading,
and a good spot to catch up on your librarain Pr0n.
>> Today, they are Grand Central Stations of culture,
>> stocked with computers capable of downloading the entire filth and fancy
>> of the Internet,
>
>I'M TIRED OF THOSE OLD-TYME LIBRARIES WHOSE COMPUTERS COULD ONLY HOLD
>HALF OF ALL THE FILTH OF THE INTERNET!
And nothing says 'brave new world' like a handful of P90's running
netscape 2.0 on 28.8 modem lines.
>> and targeted for such by radio talk-show hostess Laura Schlessinger.
>> What she may not realize is how librarians are a changing breed,
>> often politically liberal and apt to invite speakers such as Gloria
>> Steinem, Cornell West, Marian Wright Edelman, Deborah Prothrow-Stith
>> and Patricia Schroeder to their semiannual conferences of the American
>> Library Association. Retired Army Gen. Colin Powell keynoted the
>> convention in June.
How could a retired Army General associate with SUCH FILTH????
>> They are less than straitlaced in the sexuality department, as
>> evidenced in columnist Will Manley's librarian sex survey
>
>"The Manley Library Sex Survey".
>
>I would never have made up that meme in a million years.
>
>It's high time to revise the MMPI.
>
>(On the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, the question
>"I think I would like the world of a librarian" counts towards being
>gay if a guy says 'true'. I assume it counts towards being lesbian
>if a woman says 'false' because we all know that all women want to be
>librarians, just like all gay people.)
Oh great. I've only taken the MMPI about 85 times, and now I'll
know how to MASK my SECRET HOMOSEXUAL TENDANCIES by checking 'f'.
BTW, what's the correct answer for 'Do you hear voices nobody else
hears?'
>> had read "The Joy of Sex,"
>
>I assume they mean that 91 percent CLAIMED to have read it, unless he
>actually asked them a hard question about where the G-spot is.
>I'm sure just as many claim to not watch TV except for PBS and
>The Learning Channel.
And the new Fox special, When Librarians Go Bad.
>> 82 percent believed Anita Hill told the truth,
As a aside, I've met People who took classes with Anita Hill.
And people who installed her first PC in the law school (1990,
OU has never been bleeding edge) All of them describe her as
a quiet reserved lady. The morphing of her into a bomb throwing
lesbian feminist by the right always stuck me as crazy. But then
the OK legislature nearly closed down the OU school of law just
to get rid of her, despite the fact that OU got a endowed chair out
of the whole thing. She still lives in Norman AFAIK.
>> 78 percent of the
>> female librarians polled said they had been sexually harassed by a
>> patron and 61 percent had rented an X-rated video.
clearly the multibillion dollar Porn idustry is making all it's money
off of Librarians. And Nick Bensema.
>> Forty percent felt that Playboy magazine should be in the public
>> library, 22 percent thought there should be condom dispensers in
>> library restrooms
>
>I will wager the percentage of libraries who actually put condoms in
>the library restrooms is a little lower than 22 percent.
>
>Personally, I think it's a bad idea because it would encourage MORE
>people to have hot sex on top of the public Xerox machine.
And post gifs of it to the internet.
>> and just 6 percent believe AIDS is a punishment from God.
Amazing! only 6 percent are insane!
>> But the Manley survey reported 24 percent of the librarians would pose
>> nude in Playboy or Playgirl for $1 million.
Man, I'll do it for 500k. Lusty Lads of NASA. Sign me up!
>> The typical librarian, according to the ALA, is over 45 years old
>> (66 percent), is female (73 percent) and white (91 percent). Instead of
>> fighting for the right to shelve J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye,"
>> she tries to stock copies of Madonna's book "Sex."
>
>Oh, yeah, that's a good one for the library because it never gets stolen
>or has pages ripped out and it's real cheap to replace.
In OK, of course, they do have to fight to keep SMUT such as The Tin Drum
on the shelf.
>> In Library Journal's June 1999 issue touting the ALA's recent New
>> Orleans conference, a nightlife survey touted the lesbian bar Rubyfruit
>> Jungle
>
>...isn't that the name of the default iBook desktop pattern?
And let's face it, when you go to New Orleans for your conference,
you really just want to have a quiet time.
>> The ALA was the first professional organization to have a
>> homosexual caucus, according to the book "Reclaiming the American
>> Library Past" by Susan Hildenbrand. The association has an annual "Gay,
>> Lesbian and Bisexual Book Awards" contest and Library Journal
>> prominently listed "Lesbian and Gay Book Month" for June in its May 15
>> issue.
>> "You think to yourself: Who is buying this except individual
>> gays?" Mr. Herring said. "I can't think of very many public libraries
>> that would buy this stuff."
>
>Yeah, they're all too busy buying those art books about Robert Mapplethorpe
>to have time to buy any GAY books.
To say nothing of those Librace records.
>> Public libraries have been under fire this year for opposing
>> Internet filters, which the ALA deems impediments to free speech. For
>> instance, when the Loudoun County, Va., library system tried to impose
>> filters on its computers, articles in American Libraries called the
>> policy "rigid" and "draconian."
>
>> The association got broadsided this year for this stance by Miss
>> Schlessinger, who termed the ALA as having "done something evil." She
>> was particularly miffed at the ALA Web site (www.ala.org), which sports
>> a "teen hoopla" page for teen-agers.
>
>Yeah! Hoopla is EVIL! Teenage hoopla is EVILER!
SUBSCRIBE to EVIL Teenage hoopla for just $34 a year!
>> One of the links is to the "Go Ask Alice" Web site maintained by
>> Columbia University, which has a long list of explicit questions and
>> answers on sex, sexual experimentation and sex toys. Judging by the
>> questions posed by self-identified virgins,
>
>"Self-identified virgins" might be lying. Internet users should have
>their virginity certified by an independent agency.
I see a great need for a virgin certifing agency
>It wouldn't be that hard:
>
> I think I would like the work of a librarian. ( true / false )
>
> I enjoy watching "Star Trek". ( true / false )
I am Nick Bensema ( true / false )
>There, I have revised the MMPI from a 600-question general-purpose
>psychodiagnostic tool to a two-question probe which determined whether
>you are a gay librarian, a gay library patron, a virgin, or a gay virgin.
Or Nick Bensema
>> many of the users are obviously young.
>> The ALA says "Teen Hoopla" is for ages 12-18.
>
>NINETEEN-YEAR-OLDS ARE NOT TEENAGERS IN THE BIZARRE WORLD OF LIBRARIANS!
>
>> The same site also has a spirituality link to sites on Buddhism, the
>> Foursquare Gospel Church, Scientology, Teen Missions, Christianity Online
>> and Young Life, a Christian group.
>
>OH NO! BUDDHISM IS EVEN MORE SATANIC THAN SCIENTOLOGY!
>
>KIDS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO READ ABOUT RELIGION! BAN THE BIBLE!
To say nothing of Young Life, those kids were the scariest group at VU
I ever saw. My freshmen roomate was a YL'er I never saw his bed unmade.
>> The ALA released a statement in May defending "Alice" as "factual"
>> and "straightforward," adding that "if young people are not interested
>> or not ready for certain material, they won't read it."
>> "The reports have been highly exaggerated," says ALA spokeswoman
>> Linda Wallace. "[Looking up porn sites] is not what young children do
>> naturally."
>
>At least not ones under the age of three.
yeah they keep chewing the MOUSE BALLS!
>> Mr. Herring suggests the ALA ignores the strength of teen-age
>> libido.
>
>He then suggested that the restrooms should dispense junior-size condoms.
with a pay per view webcam attached.
>> "I wouldn't want any 12-year-old of mine looking at it," he says.
>> ALA policy is to ask parents to let their children explore
>> libraries' contents without any restrictions. It sponsors a Banned
>> Books Week every year, with displays such as the banned-book table at
>> the Arlington Central Library in Northern Virginia. About 20 books were
>> lined up below a poster of Mark Twain behind bars,
>
>...BEHIND GAY BARS!!!
>
>> as his "Huckleberry Finn" has been deemed too racist or sexist by various
>> groups.
I think 'Culturally Sensitive Huckleberry Finn' comes out soon.
>To say nothing about the fact that it's obviously gay because that
>bar was named "Rubyfruit" and he's named "Huckleberry". If you don't
>believe me, look at Huckleberry Hound, who is PASTEL BLUE, and PASTEL
>is the color of gay pride!
OH NO HANNA-BARBARA IS IN ON IT ALSO!!!
>Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to go try to figure out which of the
>Teletubbies are gay because clearly SOME but not ALL of them are.
It's 'Faggy-waggy' isn't it? That plush toy dildo was a dead givaway.
>> In its monthly "Censorship Watch" column, the January 1998 issue
>> of American Libraries included a disapproving note on efforts to ban
>> "Daddy's Wedding," a sequel to the homosexual-friendly "Daddy's
>> Roommate" in Allen County, Ind. The magazine was unhappy that Indiana
>> state Sen. Dick Worman was trying to get it off the shelves.
>> The battle continued this spring. Chester High School in Chester,
>> S.C., has been fighting a parent who has gathered 1,000 signatures to
>> remove the novel "Beginner's Love" by Norma Klein from its stacks. The
>> book has been accused of having objectionable language and graphic sex.
>
>What is this world coming to? There's never before been a book with
>a dirty word in it! Next thing you know, respected authors like
>Kurt Vonnegut Jr. will be drawing pictures of underpants in their books
>to save us the trouble!
>
>> The state attorney general has informed the Chester County School Board
>> the book can be removed without violating the First Amendment.
>> "Because of the taciturnity associated with librarians and
>> libraries, not much attention has been given to this," Mr. Herring
>> says. "And now they're into this insanity like no Internet filtering.
>> If you have a young child and you send them to the public library,
>> there's nothing to prevent them from hopping on line and looking at
>> everything under the sun."
Indeed. I know MY 8 year old come home and says "daddy let's go surf
some porn at the library!" every day!
>Except for the fact that there is a waiting line nine hours long to
>use the broken slow computers sharing the bandwidth of one modem.
Until the kids get bored and go to 7/11 to get their Pr0N. Except
that's OK because it's Free Enterprise.
> -- K.
>
> Eagerly awaiting Don Saklad's
> answer on the secret hot dogs.
--
Robert Lindsay, NASA - Goddard, Greenbelt MD rlin...@seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov
"This whole business of killing bugs to be cool on the Internet is Grace
Hopper's legacy." -J. "Kibo" Parry, USENET, Sep 24, 1999 Why not me?
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Chris Costello
>>I'M TIRED OF THOSE OLD-TYME LIBRARIES WHOSE COMPUTERS COULD ONLY HOLD
>>HALF OF ALL THE FILTH OF THE INTERNET!
> And nothing says 'brave new world' like a handful of P90's running
> netscape 2.0 on 28.8 modem lines.
They're finding new uses for those Linux Beowulf clusters
every day...
> BTW, what's the correct answer for 'Do you hear voices nobody else
> hears?'
"SHUT UP, just SHUT UP!"
> And the new Fox special, When Librarians Go Bad.
World's Deadliest Library Deaths!
- Chris Costello <ch...@FreeBSD.org>
Susan Whelchel
> > The typical librarian, according to the ALA, is over 45 years old
> > (66 percent), is female (73 percent) and white (91 percent). Instead of
> > fighting for the right to shelve J.D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye,"
> > she tries to stock copies of Madonna's book "Sex."
>
> Oh, yeah, that's a good one for the library because it never gets stolen
> or has pages ripped out and it's real cheap to replace.
Actually, all of the Cuyahoga County Public library's copies of "Sex" disappeared
the first time they were checked out. People took them home and couldn't find any
words to read ... I think they're still looking ...
> I think I would like the work of a librarian. ( true / false )
You'd like my work, at least.