Word: librarian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Assistant Librarian John Lanam, Lamont's beach weather has nothing to do with Harvard's main heating system...
...Guin, working on a different level, explicitly acknowledges the dilemma. One of the chorus of voices in the book belongs to Pandora, who seems to represent both the character from Greek mythology and contemporary Western consciousness. Through the magic of time travel, Pandora converses with a Kesh woman librarian. These enlightened people routinely throw away books and documents. As the dialogue continues, Pandora grows frustrated. "I never did like smartass utopians," she says. "People who have the answers are boring, niece. Boring, boring, boring." She has a point. But Stone Telling's story, with Le Guin's inspired assistance...
...Harvard Online Library Information System (HOLLIS) will "provide an online public catalogue in which items could be sought by title, author or subject and by combinations of these categories," according to an article by Pam Matz in the forthcoming issue of Harvard Librarian...
...release, he said, he saw and spoke with four of them: the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, director of Beirut's Roman Catholic Relief Services; A.P. Correspondent Terry Anderson; and David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland of Beirut's American University. But he had not seen the other two, American University Librarian Peter Kilburn or Diplomat William Buckley...
...Great War ended, emotions and prophecies were tumultuously released. The job of tracing and cataloging them would require librarian, detective, scholar and interpreter. Stanley Weintraub, a Pennsylvania State University professor, is that committee. A Stillness Heard Round the World is a classic instance of information retrieval presented without bias or thesis. Unlike Paul Fussell, whose The Great War and Modern Memory (1975) brilliantly traced the outlines of World War I on contemporary art and life, Weintraub is content to play the role of time machine, flashing backward to gather the testimonies of eyewitnesses. They are unfailingly provocative...