[ILL-L] Friday muse: librarian reputation

[Bierma, Lynn]

What a great experience you describe (below)!

Not too long after a terrorist group had set off some bombs in Italy, I arrived in Venice and  was going through customs,Everyone else in line was being asked a lot of questions, and the line was moving very slowly.

I received just two questions:  "are you here for business or pleasure" (pleasure) and, "what do you do for a living?"  I replied I worked at a library.  His immediate response was "well, I guess you wouldn't lie about that", and waved me on through.  I still am not sure whether or not I had just received an insult, or whether he thought anyone working in a library was too honorable to be up to no good.  We all got a laugh out of it.


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>From: ill-l-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Sara Hatch
>Sent: Fri 8/14/2009 10:54 AM
>To: Interlibrary Loan Listserv
>Subject: RE: [ILL-L] Friday muse: librarian reputation
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>When I was living in Germany two years ago we came home to the US for a
>funeral, and it was one of those four part epic journeys that seems to
>be the norm when trying to get to small town USA.  We traveled from New
>York to Atlanta to Seattle and on.  At the airport in Atlanta, we had to
>go through three different screening stations.  Apparently the security
>staff had been told to be very thorough so they wanded and interrogated
>every other person in line.  I was afraid I was going to miss my
>connecting flight.  When it was my turn, I was ready for a whole barrage
>of questions, since they had spent five minutes on the last person they
>questioned.  The first question they asked me was "What's your
>profession?"  I told them I worked in a library, and that I was afraid
>of missing my flight, and one of the security guards nodded his head
>wisely, and escorted me all the way through the security gauntlet,
>handing me off to an airline representative on the other side.  "She's a
>librarian," he said nodding in my direction, as though it was some
>special code.  I certainly felt special.
>


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