I was merely expressing solidarity with the librarians, so cruelly portrayed by the Andromeda scriptwriters and designers.
Some of my best friends are librarians (true).
Susan
-----Original Message-----
From: J F E McLaughlin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 29 November 2002 16:50
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Archives in fiction
Susan,
Are you mad? Do you have any idea of the fury that would be
unleashed if someone were to hit the wrong buttons and leak your
comments to lis-link? It would not be "shame about the librarians"
then , oh no, it would be "shame about all those little bits of Susan
all over the place. Gosh, I wonder if that's where they got they idea
for the Orcs from?"
Joe
Date sent: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:26:51 -0000
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From: Susan Scott <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Archives in fiction
To: [log in to unmask]
> Well if we are doing film and TV it is difficult to know where to start! There was that shoot-out in an archive in one of the Brosnan Bond films -so hard to get blood out of the records afterwards, and I can't imagine the hail of bullets did much for them either. And there's an episode in the
second series of Andromeda which features both an archivist and a librarian. The librarian is dull and grey (literally) and sort of triangular, but the archivist is a saucy minx in a mini-skirt and a most un-cardiganlike top (what there is of it), who snogs anything in trousers that crosses her
path. Martin, don't worry about your credibility - how embarrassed am I to admit to knowing this, when the second series of Andromeda is yet to be broadcast on C4! But it did make being an archivist seem like quite a sexy sort of job, which of course we all know it is. Pity about the
librarians though.
>
> Susan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Taylor Martin [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 16:08
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Archives in fiction
>
>
> In the credits to the first Lord of the Rings film "The Fellowship of the
> Ring", a character is identified as "Gondorian archivist" who presumably is
> the wizened little man armed with flaming torch who shows Gandalf where the
> scrolls are stored by which he identifies the Ring.
>
> A suitably effacing, none speaking role.
>
> I've done my credibility no good at all with that one.
>
> Martin Taylor
> City Archivist
> Hull City Archives
> 79 Lowgate
> Kingston-upon-Hull
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> Fax: 01482 613051
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Meic Pierce Owen [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 29 November 2002 15:57
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Archives in fiction
>
>
> Hi,
>
> There were also of course the Jedi archives in Episode 2 of Star Wars...so
> what if they did manage to loose a planet from their records -probably
> poor document control starting with minimal appraisal procedures but that's
> another story and, hey, at least we made the movie!!
>
> Meic Pierce Owen
> Anne Thompson
> Meic Pierce Owen
> Archivist,
> Special Collections Dept,
> University of St Andrews Library,
> North Street,
> St Andrews
> Fife KY16 9TR
> Scotland/Alba-UK
>
> Tel: +44 (01)334 462339; fax 462282
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