Bibliothecary

Hence we went to the house of Hippolito Vitellesco (afterwards Bibliothecary of yᵉ Vatican Library)[…]

What I said in my epistle to my reverend friend and master, Doctor James, the incomparably industrious and learned bibliothecary of Oxford, I profess still; but I hold those canons of the apostles uncanonical.

“You can trust Zarifar,” he said. “He’s as close to a bibliothecary as we’ve got.” / “Are you serious?” Torrin asked incredulously. He could understand the tallfolk races patronizing the library, perhaps even serving as its unofficial bibliothecary. They were in Sundasz, after all. But not someone of a race that—if Val’tissa was to believed—had once been drow.

Bibliothecaries in the audience are likely to shudder when Dorothy (ejected from the whites-only section of a library) steals a computer-programming manual and justifies it to her son by saying, “I pay taxes. And taxes paid for everything in that library. You can’t take something you’ve already paid for.”

More important, though, is the blow [Emma] Boettcher’s win strikes for education, academic rigor, book smarts.[…]The nation’s bibliothecaries are no doubt fist-pumping her victory this week.

Specifically, without the assistance of those bibliothecaries who toil at Florida International University, Miami-Dade Public Library System, and the University of Miami, my task of writing a fact-filled but readable guide to the consular institution would not have been as enjoyable as it was.

My performance of posthumous justice to QZX., my late deceased and much deplored friend, has been somewhat interrupted by a short absence from the peaceful privacy I enjoy at Leighton Buzzard. Your ready compliance, however, with my desire, that these biographical jewels should not lie locked up in a bibliothecary cabinet, has made me feel that I am enabled to he a faithful executor to QZX.’s fame.

I am not alluding to the fragmentation of specialties; I speak of the insignificance of a certain verbal grouping. The individuals who are engaged in disparate pursuits called philosophy can be as broad as you like in their concerns, but the spread of their concerns need be neither coextensive nor concentric with the spread of the administrative and bibliothecary term ‘philosophy’.

The shaping of Imperial culture through a bibliothecary and stipendiary initiative legitimizes and authorizes a parallel investment by the Valois-Angoulême court. In each case, a policy of state acts as a transformational agent in the very heart of the cultural heritage to encourage it to conceive and flourish. Libraries burgeon; talent and genius are imbued with fixed monetary worth and made to transfuse the cultural reserves – in this case Greek, Hebrew and Latin scholarship within the university body.