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Bibliomysteries

http://www.bibliomysteries.com/

Bibliography of mysteries related to books, libraries, and archives. Also includes a "RIP" page for library murder victims, and a page to propose ideas for a library murder weapon.

Author: Marsha McCurley (mmccurley@hotmail.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Info Connect List of Library Records

http://www.geocities.com/infolibrary/Page1.htm

Interesting facts about libraries including the first, largest, oldest, and other miscellanea about libraries and librarians.

Author: Godfrey Oswald (kush89@hotmail.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Libraries; Librarians; World Records

James and Matthew's Library Underground

http://www.libraryunderground.com/

"A guide to alternative library culture on the web." Includes sections for Personal Home Pages, Activism, Sexuality, Weirdness, and Fun & Games.

Author: James and Matthew (quinnj@nevada.edu, wrightm@ccmail.nevada.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Jenny's Cybrary to the Stars

http://www.JennysCybrary.com/

Home page of a librarian Jenny Levine who has links to the "Librarian's Site du Jour," Internet and cyberspace training resources and library-related pages.

Author: Jenny Levine (jayhawk@wwa.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Home Page; Librarian; Internet Training

The Librarian Stereotype and the Movies

http://wings.buffalo.edu/publications/mcjrnl/v1n1/image.html

The image of librarians in the movies is discussed an article entitled "The Librarian Stereotype and the Movies" published in MC Journal: The Journal of Academic Media Librarianship, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1993.

Author: Stephen Walker & V. Lonnie Lawson (widz@acsu.buffalo.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Issues--Image of Librarians

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Stereotype; Image of Librarians; Public Image

Librarians in Comic Books

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2161/combks/combks.htm

Exploration of the image of librarians in comic books. Did you know that Batgirl was a librarian?

Author: Steve Bergson (safran-can@yahoo.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Comics

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Issues--Image of Librarians

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Librarian Image; Issues; Public Image

Librarians in Comic Strips

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2161/comstrp/comstrp.htm

Public image of librarians as seen through comic strip representations.

Author: Steve Bergson (safran-can@yahoo.com)

Subjects:

Entertainment & Leisure--Books--Comics

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Issues--Image of Librarians

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Public Image; Image of Librarians; Issues

Librarians in the Movies

http://www.lib.byu.edu/dept/libsci/films/introduction.html

This source has lists of which movies librarians have been in , lists of actors and actresses who have played librarians and the catagories of movies that librarians play in.

Author: Martin Raish (martin_raish@byu.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Issues--Image of Librarians

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Movies; Films; Librarians

Librarism.com

http://www.librarism.com/

A hurorous website contaning librarian humor in addition to links to librarian related issues such as librarian image, and jobs.

Author: Brian L. Smith

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Issues--Image of Librarians

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Librarians; humor

The Lipstick Librarian

http://www.teleport.com/~petlin/liplib/

This delightfully facetious website defies description. It describes a new image for librarians, and avers that the most important aspect in a Lipstick librarian is "ability to look fabulous while poking around a dot-matrix printer with a bent paper-clip."

Author: Linda Absher (absherl@rocketmail.com)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Issues--Image of Librarians

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: fashion; beauty tips;

Quotations About Libraries and Librarians

http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/author.htm

This source has fun or interesting quotations that have to do with libraries or librarians.

Author: International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (ifla@nlc-bnc.ca)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Issues--Image of Librarians

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Keywords: Libraries; Librarians; Quotations

STUMPERS-L Archive

http://www.cuis.edu/~stumpers/

Web site contains a link to the Stumpers Reference Questions gopher archive, arranged by date. The STUMPERS-L listserv is a networking resource for reference questions that have people, in essence, stumped. Archives can be searched using a search engine.

Author: Moderator of STUMPERS-L (stumpers@email.dom.edu)

Subjects:

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--Fun Facts

Arts & Humanities--Libraries--On the Job--Reference

Keywords: Reference; Questions; Difficult Questions; Internet; Sources

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