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This excerpt from the ''Old librarian's almanack'' is a literary hoax attributed by Edmund Lester Pearson and published by the Elm Tree Press, Woodstock, Vermont in 1909. The almanac, or pamphlet, allegedly was first published in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1773, by a 18th century librarian "Jared Bean", under the pseudonym "Philobiblos".
Despite the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves can be quite funny. The spectrum of library humor from sources inside and outside the profession ranges from the subtle wit of the New Yorker to the satire of Mad. This examination of American library humor over the past 200 years covers a wide range of topics and spans the continuum between light and dark, from parodies to portrayals of libraries and their staffs as objects of fear. It illuminates different types of librarians--the collector, the organization person, the keeper, the change agent--and explores stereotypes like the shushing little old lady with a bun, the male scholar-librarian, the library superhero, and the anti-stereotype of the sexy librarian. Profiles of the most prominent library humorists round out this lively study.
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