BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 09:12 PM

Headed in that direction, imo.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 01:06 PM

Yeah, it is a bit like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Greg F.
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 12:55 PM

Sounds kinda like the PATRIOT Act, Kat.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 12:28 PM

Fidel Castro considers these folks to be dangerous. In March 2003, his government arrested seventy-five members of various opposition movements, including independent librarians and journalists. The groups had been infiltrated by the "Agents of State Security." All those arrested were found guilty in May of that year and most were sentenced to twenty years or more. Two of the men who were arrested were Hector Palacious, a librarian and member of an umbrella group, Todos Unidos, who received a twenty-five year sentence and internationally known poet and journalist, Raul Rivero, sentenced to twenty years.

I found that info at the back of a novel I just finished by Barbara Parker called "Rage of Suspicion."

She also tells about her inspiration for the book: In 1998, a married couple, Ramon Colas and Berta Mexidor, who founded Bibliotecas Independientes de Cuba (Independent Libraries of Cuba) were at a book fair, when they heard Castro say, "In Cuba there are no prohibited books, only those we do not have the money to buy." So, they took him at his word and started the Feliz Varela Library in their home, as well as supervised the opening of a dozen other home libraries within nine months.

In 1999, they were evicted from their home and had their books and personal papers taken from them amid much harassement and threats by the government. In 2001, the USA granted them political asylum. They and their children came here that year.

My grandpa wouldn't have thought much good of a government that might've taken his home lending library and evicted him for having it back in the 1890s!

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Amos
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 11:04 AM

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (Greek EñáôïóèÝíçò; 276 BC - 194 BC) was a Greek mathematician, geographer and astronomer. His contemporaries nicknamed him "beta" (Greek for "number two") because he supposedly proved himself to be the second in the ancient Mediterranean region in many fields. He is noted for devising a system of latitude and longitude, and for being the first known to have calculated the circumference of the Earth. He also created a map of the world based on the available geographical knowledge of the era.

Eratosthenes was born in Cyrene (in modern-day Libya), but worked and died in Alexandria, capital of Ptolemaic Egypt. He never married. He was reputedly known for his haughty character.

Eratosthenes studied in Alexandria and claimed to have done so for some years in Athens. In 236 BC he was appointed by Ptolemy III Euergetes I as librarian of the Alexandrian library, succeeding the first librarian, Zenodotos, in that post. He made several important contributions to mathematics and science, and was a good friend to Archimedes. Around 255 BC he invented the armillary sphere, which was widely used until the invention of the orrery in the 18th century.

In 194 BC Eratosthenes became blind and a year later he supposedly starved himself to death.

He is credited by Cleomedes in On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies with having calculated the Earth's circumference around 240 BC, using knowledge of the angle of elevation of the Sun at noon on the summer solstice in Alexandria and in the Elephantine Island near Syene (now Aswan, Egypt).

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Sep 07 - 08:42 AM

Wikipedia's list of "Well-known people who have been librarians."

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 07:14 PM

It is a little known fact that Atilla the Hun served as a librarian in the formative years of his late adolescence.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 04:27 PM

Wilfried, maybe many dangerous librarians don't meet your criteria because they are smart enough not to get caught....

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: fat B****rd
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 03:51 PM

Roger The Skiffler, he used to be a librarian. I think.
The deadliest washboard in Ascot.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: GUEST,Crazy_Man_Micheal
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 01:52 PM

the author Stephen King wrote a little something called The Library Police, some years ago...I've never looked at librarians quite the same way since.... *LOL*

King was a teacher I think..

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 11:56 AM

I am a librarian
My desk is my own
And I work at the cataloging trade
And the only only thing that I ever did was wrong
Was not to be afraid.

I wasn't afraid of the elcee
Or of AACR Two-ee
And the only only thing I ever did was wrong
Was to delve into the foggy foggy Dewey.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 10:54 AM

The killer category brings us right back to Laura Bush- who cheerfully & enthusiastically supports, and has supported, all of her husband's idiocies and atrocities.

Actually, Laura herself is a deadly librarian. She killed someone in a traffic accident many years ago. You can Google it, I'm sure. Happened here in Texas.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 10:45 AM

The Foggy Dewey Decimal... doesn't bear thinking...

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 10:26 AM

And, Ms. Anthrope!

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 10:08 AM

MY Director doesn't care...whoops, I am the Director.

What an idea for the hero (or villian) of a graphic novel!

The DIRECTOR!

Enforcing (and making) Library Policies with blazing pistols, an unmatched ability in the martial arts and a razor-sharp gladius presented by Hypatia of Alexandria herself, The DIRECTOR fights for bigger budgets and against the forces of Dr. Ignorance and Mr. Apathy!!

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:52 AM

A faulty transmission.

My post must end:
I strongly must repudiate Mudgard's remark about my dangerousness. I like Conan's work but my director has forbidden me to do also.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Greg F.
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:23 AM

...Corpses must line their way...

Well then, that's killer librarians, not dangerous ones.

The killer category brings us right back to Laura Bush- who cheerfully & enthusiastically supports, and has supported, all of her husband's idiocies and atrocities.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 09:10 AM

Thanks for all the hints. All are interesting, but only some meet my question: Corpses must line their way (not only by the millions like Mao, a fewer will do also).

E. Hoover - interesting, considering the workings of the CIA in Latin America and elsewhere. Yes, he should be included. But the Grimm Bros. and Casanova? Telling fairy tales or banging one's way through Europe I wouldn't consider dangerous.

Virtual librarians are also welcome (special thanks to Giok for Conan) like Eco's librarian.

I strongly must repudiate Mudgard's remark about my dangerousness.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Grab
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 07:54 AM

Check out the intro to "Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore, about how librarians made a difference, and one in particular named Ann Sparanese. Summary here.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 06:44 AM

London libraries are full of extremist Islamic radical publications.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: open mike
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 04:34 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu-TijjVs_g

i drive the bookmobile for the library..
so am a truckin' librarian....

do you know any libraries where they have
library cart parade teams?
some of the drills
they do are hilarious!

(maybe not dangerous, however)

google library cart drill teams to see them in action

http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/lb/main/drillteam.cfm

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: autolycus
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 01:46 AM

Wonderful stuff.

Barbara Shrub a librarian? And to think I've already worried for her safety on another thread. Now we have the reason. :-)




      Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 01:07 AM

Very kewl, Amos and Rapaire!

Since I have tats, does that mean I can be a librarian when I grow up?!*8bg**

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Amos
Date: 06 Sep 07 - 12:17 AM

Even the Temple has its librarian aspirants.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:57 PM

Try this, or this one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: katlaughing
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:21 PM

The beautiful old library in Westerly, RI had a wonderful poster by the check-out desk which said something about being sure to bring one's book back by the due date. At the bottom it said, "Do dat!" I don't know why, but that little pun always made me chuckle.

You might find a few dangerous ones over at the Anarchist Librarians' site!

Then there's the Librarian Avengers!.

Some pretty cool info and a list of famous-once-were-librarians at this site.

All of the above garnered from Fighting the stereotype-Unusual Librarians, which it looks as though some of the above posters may have already found.

Fun stuff, thanks!

kat

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 09:24 PM

I tell people that if my Cairn Terrier was a human being, she would be a librarian- she's continually upbraiding other dogs when they make too much noise.

That said, I am very fond and admiring of librarians, particularly those at the reference desk.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:16 PM

think of the libraric area as an erotogenic zone - try to imagine moving a grape very gently with your tongue from A to Aardrvark.

sorry, its the Guinness talking......and the Harvey's Bristol Cream - I've been trying to emptty a bottle to get hold of the bottleneck....

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:08 PM

He's married to one.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: TheSnail
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 07:07 PM

Has Bush declared war on Libraria yet?

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:29 PM

I think the murderer in the Name of the Rose turns out to be the librarian.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Greg F.
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:13 PM

Well, there's Tuli Kupferberg

& Aristosthenes...

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:05 PM

June Tabor was a librarian.

Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 06:05 PM

I met a guy from Libraria once.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 05:59 PM

But that's okay, as they worked in fictional libraries.


A

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 05:10 PM

They all, at one time or another, worked in libraries.

Of course, there ARE a few fictional folks in the list....

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: artbrooks
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 05:09 PM

Well, No. 2 daughter is a librarian - works in the teen program at Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh - developing teenage minds is a dangerous concept!

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Amos
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 05:04 PM

Extreme Librarianism:


S H H H H H H!!!!!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: MBSLynne
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 04:55 PM

ooook!

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: autolycus
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 03:41 PM

I'd like to know the research methods behing that fascinating list, Rapaire.

Next;-

   Extreme librarianship


but that's a horse of a different thread. Or something.





    Ivor

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 02:29 PM

Cyrano de Bergerac. (Well, he was a writer....)
Hypatia of Alexandria
John Dee
Benjamin Franklin
John Edgar Hoover
Karl Marx
The Brothers Grimm
Rupert Giles
Barbara Gordon
Malachias of Hildesheim
Nadezhda Krupskaya
Golda Meir

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 01:12 PM

John Connolly - he can get get very nasty with that melodeon....

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Emma B
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 12:24 PM

Rex Libris

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 12:07 PM

Conan the Librarian

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:53 AM

"That's because we deal in ideas, which are more dangerous than anything else in the world."

Spoken as only one who has never handled an angry house cat could.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:49 AM

That's because we deal in ideas, which are more dangerous than anything else in the world.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: PMB
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:46 AM

Even having access to a library can be dangerous:

The fact that he and another academic had access to a library meant they were "intellectually in a position to compile the sophisticated texts of the 'militante gruppe'," the prosecutor's office said.

He was released on bail after over 3 weeks in custody.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:43 AM

Giacomo Casanova.

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: MudGuard
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:39 AM

I know only one librarian more dangerous than Mao: Wilfried Schaum ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Wanted: Dangerous librarians
From: John Hardly
Date: 05 Sep 07 - 11:37 AM

Marion. She was noted to have read Balzak, Shakespeare, and all them other high-flautin' Greeks.