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Librarians are so hot:

The University of Iowa Libraries is (single administrative entity) celebrating its sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary this year. They do exhibitions in the North Lobby of the Main Library, and the one that has been up this fall is about (gasp!) librarians--titled "Beyond the Bun : A Look Inside Librarian Culture." The following quotations were prominently displayed--

"Beware the lustful fires that burn in a librarian's heart. They can rage beyond all control."
--The Onion, May 28, 2003

"Librarians possess a vast store of politeness. These people get asked every crazy question on God's green earth and they tolerate the cranks and eccentrics."
--Garrison Keillor, Lives of the Cowboys

"Libraries are brothels for the mind, and librarians are the madams, greeting customers, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping books."
--Guy Browning, The Guardian, October 18, 2003

"Librarians are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man."
--Michael Moore, Buzz Flash Interviews, March 13, 2002

"Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I'll show you a librarian."
--Patricia Wilson Berger, Chicago Tribune, June 1990

"In the nonstop tsunami of global information librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim."
--Linton Weeks, Washington Post, January 13, 2001

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