The Lighter Side of Librarianship
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
"It was a dark and stormy night..." and other great masterpieces
of literature.
Librarians
in the Movies
This filmography is an ongoing attempt to find a more comprehensive and defensible
basis for our acceptance or rejection of the "typical movie librarian"
-- whatever we think he or she is. It lists over 500 Hollywood (and a few
foreign) productions that in some significant or memorable way include a library
or librarian.
The Lipstick Librarian
Who is that exquisitely attired woman and are my tax dollars paying for it?
She's a Lipstick Librarian!
Poems on Libraries and Books:
A Librarian's Mini-Anthology
Speak low - tread softly through these halls;
Here genius lives enshrined,
Here reign, in silent majesty,
The monarchs of the mind.
Quotations about Libraries
and Librarians
Arranged by subject (such as borrowing, definitions, vanity) with an author
index.
Word Play
A hundred sites that feature fun with words, from anagrams through palindromes
and Tom Swifties to "Words That Could Be Confusing/Embarrassing in the
US and the UK."