Hi
Just a whimsical note for Thursday afternoon ont the subject of the
importance/usefulness of professional librarians
I only wish I knew the proper reference for this but years ago my mother
told me she had heard on a radio programme (which she couldn't remember
the details of sadly) that, in the event of a nuclear war, librarians
were considered to be (by some kind of official think tank rather than
the general public) the third most important profession to be saved
(presumably earning them a place in a nuclear bunker!).
So someone somewhere must have thought we were important then!
No I can't remember who 1 and 2 were though one might have been
architects and the logic was something like needing people to redesign
buildings etc and librarians because we would be needed to bring order
to chaos by organising knowledge.
Gillian Edwards
Greenwich libraries
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