Who says librarians can’t also be the leaders of organized crime rings?
The very man charged with protecting these treasures, Marino Massimo De Caro, a politically connected former director of the library, is accused of being at the center of a network of middlemen, book dealers and possibly crooked conservators — all part of what prosecutors say is a sometimes corrupt market for rare books…
The New York Times has more, including the best final paragraph you’ll read all week.
One response
To call yourself a Librarian you need to have either a 4 year undergraduate degree or a post-graduate degree – usually a Masters – in Information Science. The book thief in question did not have any academic qualifications, so please stop referring to him as a Librarian. He wasn’t.
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