Comments on: Quick 10: 10 Surprising Former Librarians

By: Walter Skold

Walter Skold — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:52:00 +0000

Hello, I made two posts that mentioned your 10 Surprising Former Librarians, at:

deadpoets.typepad.com /leaves_of_bark/

Nice work.

By: Laura

Laura — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:26:00 +0000

It’s the Newbery award, named after John Newbery.

By: ProudLibrarian

ProudLibrarian — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:36:00 +0000

Feeling a little defensive here… what is so surprising about notable people being librarians, hmmmmmmmmm?

By: libraryprincess

libraryprincess — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:20:00 +0000

NEWBERY, people. COME ON.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:10:00 +0000

I think I’d be surprised if Borges had not worked in a library.

By: John m

John m — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:55:00 +0000

If I remember correctly, I watched a program on J Edgar Hoover not too long ago that more or less indicated that when he was working at the LC he came across personal information on high ranking officials that may have helped in his meteoric rise to head of the FBI, which he continued to collect throughout his ridiculously long term as head of said bureau.

By: Kelsey

Kelsey — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:07:00 +0000

Appropriately enough, I’m commenting from MY neighborhood public library, where I work. It’s nice to see some library love on the _floss!

By: jack

jack — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:37:00 +0000

many of these are easy to picture working in a library (borges, cleary, cowell). I liked the article but I wouldn’t say I’m surprised

By: Caitlyn

Caitlyn — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:23:00 +0000

Actually, Carol, the piece does not say that the Dewey system was used at the Library of Congress. It says that Hoover mastered the Dewey while he worked at the Library of Congress.

By: carol

carol — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:44:00 +0000

Actually, J Edgar would have use the “new” Library of Congress classification system or the older system developed by Thomas Jefferson. Dewey was not used at LC.