Librarians are sometimes portrayed as rather 'grey' people. Nothing could be further from the truth. While libraries contain information on a vast variety of topics and people, including those mentioned above, it is the librarians who get this material into the library and then save you time in finding it. In their spare time librarians hang-glide, bushwalk, sing, cart hay and otherwise enrich the community. Librarians are not just in the information industry, they are in the people-pleasing business.
Librarians are ubiquitous.
They are present in all walks of life as the example of Alexander Solzhenitsyn further illustrates. He was prison librarian while serving a seven year term for criticising Stalin. See how librarians and libraries have been depicted in movies by Martin Raish, or investigate Bibliomysteries by Marsha McCurley- mysteries that have their setting in the world of libraries, books or archives. Author Stephen Parnell Additions, comments and corrections welcome.