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“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said.

chessieann:

“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said.

He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They’re pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful.

“They like everything,” he said, “gum wrappers as much as books.” He said this with a hint of disdain.

“Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists,” he said, “they’re too crazy to throw anything out.”

-Avi Steinberg, Running the Books

Guess its a good thing I’m specializing in archives : )

Via Librarianista

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    So not true. Librarians keep things that no one else wants in the back of the library. We hoard things. And when we run...
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    yes. hmm, wonder if there’s some witty text about a museum/archives straddling person.
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    If you took out the old books, we could keep them in circulation. Sorry, needed to be annoyingly pedantic for a second....
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    unfortunately for my closet/apartment/life.
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    Not sure I agree with this, but I do want to read this book.
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    Guess its a good thing I’m specializing in archives : )
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