Somehow this gem has escaped my attention until now. In 1906, Sam Walter Foss, a librarian in Somerville, Massachusetts, published a series of funny poems about the variously happy and beleaguered staff of a public library.
This must be made into a musical. From my first semester of library school, I've argued that what the profession needs for prestige is a popular sitcom set in a library. But a musical will do for now.
I believe there is an Australian sitcom about a library.
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Most of the librarians I've met are cranky, judgmental gossip-ladies, not gorgeously-idealized, art-nouveau brain-teslafying-goddess-heroines.
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John, you need to write that script!
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