ER star Noah Wyle has signed on to play the title role in TNT's upcoming fantasy telefilm The Librarian, which will be executive produced by Dean Devlin (Independence Day), TNT announced. Wyle will play the caretaker of a repository of humanity's greatest secrets hidden beneath the New York Public Library, which includes everything from the Golden Fleece to the Ark of the Covenant, the network said.
Considering the country's reading habits, there are probably as many great human "secrets" in the public holdings of the library as there are in the mythical secret library.
| Categorized in: Form: News , Topic: Librarian StereotypeThe National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) has recently released it's annual survey on starting salries by academic major. Though the survey refers specifically to undergraduate majors, it is heartening to note that Information Science students should expect to receive an average salary of around $41,000. As I'll soon be graduting with my Masters in Information and Library Science (hire me!), that means I should be expecting what, $60,000?
Does anyone here watch ABC's Extreme Makeover? The li'l woman called me into the living room last night to watch as
young, frumpy Amanda, attempts to shake off the librarian stereotypes with thousands of dollars of cosmetic surgery. At least they didn't make her dress up with horn-rimmed glasses and a bun for the "before" pictures.
I just stumbled across this painting of The Librarian by 16th century Italian artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. You are probably familiar with Arcimboldo's work - his portraits are of people represent ideas (summer, fire) made up of items representing those ideas. It's all very meta, 500 years before anyone knew what that meant. It is also hard to explain, and you propbably have no idea what I'm talking about so go check out this gallery of many (all?) of Arcimboldo's variations on this theme for further explanation.
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