The Library’s Helpful Sage of the Stacks (from the NY Times)

By SAM ROBERTS
Published: December 31, 2007
Interesting article about David Smith, supervising librarian of the Allen Room and the Wertheim Study at the Humanities and Social Sciences Library on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street.  He is also known as the “librarian to the stars.”

…“I was a very shy, retiring reference librarian,” he recalled. Then a decade [...]

Updates from our Texas library colleagues

Messages about our Texas colleagues from Linda Watson, AAHSL President

I’ve been trying to gather information about our colleagues in Texas and their status following Hurricane Ike. Here’s what I have so far from various sources:

Sept 15: From Brett Kirkpatrick: he is safe in Dallas and his UTMB-Galveston staff is ok, although some lost their [...]