Jeanette C. Smith's The Laughing Librarian: A History of American Library Humor PDF

By Jeanette C. Smith

ISBN-10: 0786464526

ISBN-13: 9780786464524

regardless of the stodgy stereotypes, libraries and librarians themselves could be very humorous. The spectrum of library humor from resources in and out the occupation levels from the delicate wit of the New Yorker to the satire of Mad. This exam of yank library humor during the last two hundred years covers a variety of themes and spans the continuum among mild and darkish, from parodies to portrayals of libraries and their staffs as gadgets of worry. It illuminates sorts of librarians—the collector, the association individual, the keeper, the switch agent—and explores stereotypes just like the shushing little outdated woman with a bun, the male scholar-librarian, the library superhero, and the anti-stereotype of the horny librarian. Profiles of the main favorite library humorists around out this full of life study.

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