From: Gabriel Austin <gabrielaustin@EARTHLINK.NET>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 08:28:23 -0700
Sender: Exlibris <EXLIBRIS@MAIL.ECW.NAME>
As a coda to this discussion, I permit myself to revert to the statement
by Walker Lewis in his biography of the great American jurist, Roger
Taney:
Lewis, Walker Without Fear or Favor: a Biography ... Roger Brooke
Taney (1965)
(538): "One of the joys of historical research is the revelation of how
much of the milk of human kindness there is in libraries. It is in the
realm of research that one sees librarians in their truest light. They
are a race apart, untrammelled by false distinctions of creed, color, or
national origin. Big and small, male and female, young and old, they
share a sense of dedication. In return for their favor, they ask only a
genuine interest in what they have to offer; once assured of this, they
give of themselves without stint".
Gabriel Austin