As it's Friday afternoon, I thought list members might appreciate
the following. Taken from vol.2 of 'Library World' 1899/1900, p.52,
it is entitled "Some Nickel-Plated Aphorisms of the Pseudonyms". We
have, I beleive, had some previous discussion on this list about who
the Pseudonyms were.
Anyway, here are their aphorisms:
1. If you cannot classify a book - don't buy it.
2. It is better to criticise a catalogue than to compile one.
3. Mistakes are generally made by absent assistants.
4. Library statistics never lie - it would be an impolite invasion of the
librarian's province.
5. If you want your own way - square the chairman.
6. A book in the hand is worth two at the binder's.
7. The librarian who doesn't advertise himself is lost.
8. A stingy librarian makes a stingy committee.
9. A misguided ambition to get married is the main cause of the zeal of
library assistants for advancement.
10. The librarian who invented everything before anybody else was born, is
generally a man with a strongly developed inventive faculty.
11. When a committeeman gets nasty, give him an order.
12. When a book cannot be found, blame the Indicator - it doesn't speak back.
13. When you have exhausted every ordinary means of achieving notoriety -
join the Library Association.
No comment!
Chris Baggs
UWA.
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