This is National Library Week and perhaps you did not know some very famous people were either librarians or worked in libraries. Such notables are FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, Casanova, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, former first lady Laura Bush and China's Mao Zedong.
At a time where anyone can Google just about anything, librarians don't just find information, they find the correct and authorative information -- and fast. The American Library Association reports reference librarians in the nation's public and academic libraries answered nearly 5.7 million questions each week in 2010.
A character in "The Callahan Touch", one of science fiction writer Spider Robinson's books, said, "Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. Never tick [he uses a stronger verb] one off." Good advice.
