Rachel

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“It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: librarians, libraries, national-library-week

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“Do I have to talk to insane people?"
"You're a librarian now. I'm afraid it's mandatory.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Woman Who Died a Lot

tags: crazy-people, librarians

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“I'm a born librarian with a sex drive”
― David Bowie

tags: david-bowie, librarian

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“Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: books, fact, librarians, libraries

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“A librarian can’t live by books alone, and I wouldn’t eat them if I could. Feel too much like cannibalism.”
― Mike Mullin, Ashfall

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Rachel’s Groups

Library Society of the World (LSW) — 85 members — last activity Jan 09, 2013 06:34AM
What are you reading? Open to all libraryfolk and library fans. Associated with the Library Society of the World, an ad hoc, anarchic, awesome and ope ...more

Goodreads Librarians Group — 337799 members — last activity 0 minutes ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more

Oberlin — 71 members — last activity Jun 01, 2026 02:40PM
For Obies past, present, and future.

Library Juice Press and Litwin Books — 26 members — last activity May 10, 2009 05:49AM
Litwin Books publishes scholarly books about media, communication, libraries, and related historical topics, and through its Library Juice Press impri ...more

History, Medicine, and Science: Nonfiction and Fiction — 1550 members — last activity Jul 03, 2026 05:53PM
Discussion about the fascinating stories of our scientific and medical past

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