Word: librarian
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thought that this new curator of poetry...might be able to join people in Houghton who are thinking about contemporary writing," says Bill P. Stoneman, Librarian of Houghton. "[The new curator] could help us develop an awareness of what people are doing...
Stoneman, the Houghton librarian, said that though the search process is well underway, it's "understandable" that people outside the library are worried since they haven't been kept abreast of the progress that has been made...
...Francisco Public Library brochure quotes the head city librarian: "Modern libraries are becoming much-needed community centers for people." No doubt community centers are fine things, but libraries already have a job to play. The Main Library should take a page from Widener: Forget fancy atriums and identity politics. The chain-link fences don't matter. The library should be a home for books; the architecture will take care of itself...
...wanted to have my own bookstore until I worked in one," he told The Boston Globe in 1998. "Then I thought I'd be a librarian until I met some crazy ones. I hoped to get into publishing, but at 28, my parents were still helping me out. Which wasn't good...
...wait. As you walk around the room, you notice something: the shelves are not of equal height. The tallest ones are at the bottom. And they are full of the tallest books. Then you understand. Jefferson, the philosopher, worshipped reason. Jefferson, the librarian, understood that sometimes you must surrender to reality and classify a book by its size...