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Author:   Jeanette C. Smith ,  Will Manley ,  Norman D Stevens
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9780786464524

ISBN 10:   0786464526
Pages:   239
Publication Date:   16 May 2012
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      Foreword by Will Manley      Foreword by Norman D. Stevens      Preface      Introduction      1. Humors and Blunders      2. Batgirl Was a Librarian: Library Superheroes      3. Librarian Types and Stereotypes: She’s a Keeper!      4. Library Staff: They Also Serve      5. Shhh! The Unforgivable Sin      6. Parodies: With Apologies to ...      7. Edmund Lester Pearson: The Main Guy      8. Norman D. Stevens and the Molesworth Institute      9. Will Manley: The Bad Boy      10. Technology: The Internet’s a Drunk Librarian      11. Mad Magazine: It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Library      12. The New Yorker: The Smart Set Just Loves to Read      13. The Fear Factor      14. For SEX, See the Librarian      15. Joyfully Subversive      Notes      Selected Bibliography      Index     

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Should be required reading for all librarians and library-school students --<i>Booklist</i>; a must have...recommend --<i>Library History Buff Blog</i>; Smith charts the largely unexplored territory of library wit and satire, both inside and outside the profession --<i>C&RL News</i>; a serious though most readable study of library-related humour...an enjoyable as well as instructive work --<i>Australian Library Journal</i>; Smith, presents a history of American library humor from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century that focuses on humor about libraries and librarians --<i>Reference & Research Book News</i>.

Should be required reading for all librarians and library-school students --Booklist; a must have...recommend --Library History Buff Blog; Smith charts the largely unexplored territory of library wit and satire, both inside and outside the profession --C&RL News; a serious though most readable study of library-related humour...an enjoyable as well as instructive work --Australian Library Journal; Smith, presents a history of American library humor from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century that focuses on humor about libraries and librarians --Reference & Research Book News.

Author Information

Jeanette C. Smith, a Fellow of the Molesworth Institute, received the first-ever Edmund Lester Pearson Library Humor Award for a cautionary essay on the hazards of reading and driving. She has been a librarian since 1973 and a collector of library humor for almost as long. She lives in Las Cruces, New Mexico.

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