A quote for the librarians among us...

Cafe Society
1

I ran across this in my lunchtime reading:

“…but a librarian who isn’t obsessive probably isn’t a good librarian, and Adele Mundy was a very good librarian indeed.”

– David Drake, The Far Side of the Stars

I got a chuckle out of it, in no small part because it really does fit so many of the people with whom I studied library science.

2

At the risk of sounding like I’m plugging a product…

The first two books of David Drake’s with Adele Mundy as a major character are

With the Lightnings

and

Lt. Leary Commanding

Both are linked to free and complete copies of the books available online. I think they’re great fun, and well worth reading.

3

I also like Foskett’s Creed of a Librarian:

:slight_smile:

4

Actually, I think Pratchett put it best when the Librarian said:
“Oook.”

I think that covers it all clearly and concisely.

5

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are:

  1. Silence;
  2. Books must be returned no later than the date last shown; and
  3. Do not interfere with the nature of causality.