[EXLIBRIS:31732] RE: Gutenberg/cat fetish

[Louis Reith <reithl@georgetown.edu>]

As are snakes. At a small Lutheran prep school which I attended in the 
early 1950s, the major classroom building, with library, burned to the 
ground. Prof. Norman Gienapp, one of the faculty members, used to lament 
that with the fire, not only the books disappeared, but also the snake 
which had been keeping the mice population down in the stacks.  You 
never know what lurks behind those silent phalanxes of books on the shelves!

Louis Reith
Georgetown University
Rare Book/Humanities Cataloger
reithl@georgetown.edu

Gabriel Austin wrote:

> That's what you think. Cats are useful and used to keep down mice. 
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> [mailto:exlibris@library.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Nevine Marchiset
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> In Europe there are no cats in libraries. Only books, readers and 
> librarians.
> N. Marchiset
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