After Martha gave a presentation to the Special Libraries Association’s Southern California chapter, she was left wondering whether there’s a good collective noun for a group of librarians. A dewey? This is part of a complete episode.
Leave a comment
3 comments
More from this show
A member of the ski patrol at Vermont’s Sugarbush Resort shares some workplace slang. Boilerplate denotes hard-packed snow with a ruffled pattern that makes skis chatter, death cookies are random chunks that could cause an accident, and...
A resident of Michigan’s scenic Beaver Island shares the term, boodling, which the locals use to denote the social activity of leisurely wandering the island, often with cold fermented beverages. There have been various proposed etymologies...
A Murmur of Librarians.
My cousin, who is a librarian, suggests:
– a catalogue of librarians
– a classification of librarians
– a cutter of librarians
– a press of librarians
– a trove of librarians
– an index of librarians
Her husband, inspired by a word for a quiet gathering, adds:
– a vigil of librarians
My suggestion was a bunsshhh of librarians, intending to be “bunch” mispronounced by someone used to shushing people all day long, but nobody seemed to get the joke.
A neighbor of mine who is a school librarian here at the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District wrote a wonderful letter to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner yesterday after hearing this question being talked about on “A Way With Words”
http://www.newsminer.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/force-of-librarians/article_68e6e25a-0c82-11e8-90fd-4be5c3eb7842.html
A force of librarians. I like it. If you do too, feel free to pass that link along to your friends, post it on social media, and spread that word around.
A force of librarians, a force for good, an irresistible force, a force to be reckoned with.