Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ralph T. Esterquest, director and secretary of the Midwest Inter-Library Center and Corporation of Chicago, will become Librarian of the University Medical School, School of Dental Medicine, and School of Public Health, on January 1. Deans of the three schools made the joint announcement yesterday...
...streets of Kano in northern Nigeria but, as the saying goes, they are the young, the old, the poor, and the harlots. Most educated Nigerian men have no interest in emancipating their wives. "If you marry an educated woman, she wants to go out and work." explained a librarian working for the British Council. "If you let her, people talk against you. If you stop her, you have to buy her more things to keep her at home...
...decision was made last Friday by Ruth K. Porritt, head Radcliffe librarian, when slight confusion ensued after sixty students had reserved twenty boks for the same night...
...major works of Henry Miller, I reflected much later, would always be locked up on rare book Erotica shelves and the keys bestowed to a spinster librarian. "Pornography and anarchism," I exclaimed bitterly, and longed for the bosom of Mother Advocate...
...door. On Fraser's shelves are volumes to turn any McCarthyite red. When the State Department nervously banned the fictional biography Citizen Tom Paine, by the then Redolent Howard Fast, from its overseas informational libraries, Fraser ordered six extra copies to handle the requests of curious Frenchmen. Summarizes Librarian Harry Goldberg: "Our aim is to present all aspects of American literature and civilization...