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The Many Faces of Librarians

This past week was National Library Week! Still imagine all librarians as the curmudgeonly figures you encountered in elementary school? Think again. Slate has a photo project representing the diversity of librarians—showcasing…

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Famous Librarian Also Famous Jerk

Melvil Dewey: inventor of the Dewey decimal system, godfather of modern library science, and…sexist jerk? According to this Bitch blog post, Dewey helped open the field of librarianship to women by…

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Italian Librarian Steals and Deals Rare Books

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…

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The Cutest Librarian

If you ask Kuzya, an assistant librarian at the State Hermitage Library in Novorossiysk, Russia, for a book recommendation, you might go home with A Tale of Two Kitties or The Brothers Kara-meow-zov.…

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“Sabotage” Video Recreated by Coolest Librarians Ever

You gotta fight! For your right! To check out books and return them by their due date! Some librarians who are cooler than everyone else in the world decided to…

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The Card Catalog Is Mightier than the Sword

Rumpus readers already know librarians are heroes, but it’s nice to see other people get it too. Here’s io9’s list of 20 heroic librarians who save the world in books,…

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Inked Up Librarians

Mental Floss compiles tattooed librarians. As expected, much of the skin art is literary themed, but that is not to say that classic skull and bones motifs don’t make an…

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Libraries + Sex = The Best Survey In The History Of The World

Bookninja pointed me in the direction of the recently released “1992 Librarians and Sex Survey Results.” Apparently, the Wilson Library Bulletin ran this survey way back when, and then promptly…

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