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• Bibliomysteries: Library Detectives Mysteries featuring librarians and other literary types as detectives.
  
• Quotations about Libraries and Librarians IFLA collection of quotations about libraries, librarians, and books.
  
• librariansRgeeks2 "A few simple mathematical calculations reveal that if reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000." A monetary manifesto by librarian Tami Sutcliffe.
  
• Search Books By Color A unique OPAC search service from the New England School of Law Library, Boston, Massachusetts. Reserve room titles are indexed according to their binding colors.
  
• librarian.net Weblog by a librarian featuring links to pertinent alternative web sites of interest to library workers and others involved with the library community.
  
• Culture and Humour in Libraries The Italian Library Association's selection of resources for librariana in literature, the movies, TV, music, comics and jokes. Includes links and a bibliography.
  
• The Library Song The lyrics and music for the renowned Public Library Song.
  
• Librarian's Alphabet An alphabetical look at librarianship.
  
• Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto A blueprint for the future of library services by librarian Michael Buckland. Originally published by the ALA in 1992.
  
• Library Science Jeopardy Based on the television show.
  
• Manifesto of Avant-Garde Librarianship Shake in your shoes bureaucrats! From the Movement for an Avant- Garde Librarianship.
  
• Top Ten Films featuring Libraries, Librarians and the Book Arts Compiled by Steven J. Schmidt
  
• Library Cats Map Locate the closest library with a cat on the premises.
  
• Library Referees Commentary about the quality of the peer-review journal system in Library Science. Includes downloadable data which analyzes the publication record of editorial board members of selected peer-review journals.
  
• Postage Stamp featuring The New York Public Library A look at the first U.S. postage stamp to feature a public library.
  
• Archives of the Librariana Listserv Archives of LIBRARIANA@LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU
  
• What I Really Learned in Library School From the Spring 1999 issue of the newsletter of the Minnesota Library Association Social Responsibilities Round Table (MSRRT).
  
• Rudolf Rocker: Anarchist Librarian German anarchist and Librarian of the Workers' Educational Union of London who regarded his work as "absorbing and a great joy."
  
• Resources for Librarians with Disabilities Disability culture as it pertains to library personnel. Includes resources and a bibliography.
  
• OVERDUE Cartoon librarian Mary Eastman is a public librarian on overdue book patrol.
  
• Librarians in Comic Books Compiled by Steven M. Bergson
  
• Postage Stamp featuring the Library of Congress Information about the Library of Congress Bicentennial Program's commemorative stamp. Photographs of stamp and first day cover are prominently featured.
  
• Literature, Libertines and Lenin's Wife Famous librarians and famous people associated with libraries.
  
• Librarians in the Movies: An Annotated Filmography Compiled by Martin Raish
  
• Librariana and Library Artifacts  Dan Lester's inventory of  library postcards, library paperweights, library dishes, silver library spoons and pornography which features librarians.  
  
• Why are Librarians So Sexy? Professor David Austin explains it all for you.
  
• James & Matthew's Library Underground A guide to alternative library culture, activism and fun. Includes links to home pages and interest groups.
  
• Tom the Dancing Bug Ruben Bolling's Tom the Dancing Bug considers the possibilities of the public library. From Salon.com.