Did you hear about this? Some guys stole some rare books from a library in Kentucky and used a stun gun on the University Librarian. According to the library director, who posted the link to this story on a list serv, the librarian is doing okay.
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/11047843.htm
Unfortunately, this sort of thing has happened elsewhere:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/565100.stm
There's a black market for this material and some even sell library books on ebay (I know, my husband has gotten some).
1. didn't the folks at Christie's think it the least bit odd the some 20 year old yahoos were trying to sell a 15th century manuscript?
ReplyDelete2. I love the quote in the second article from the 'Church of Ireland librarian Harry Carson, "How they can live with themselves I don't know." My mother used to say that when we were kids and someone was mean to us--"Well, they'll have to live with that!" As I got older it became clearer and clearer that those guys really didn't have a problem living with that. Otherwise they wouldn't have done it in the first place. (I was a bit slow as a child.)
I think the yahoos got caught because of trying to go to Christie's...they don't sond like the brightest bulbs...
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