Came across that description of librarians in while catching up on my backlog of College and Research Library News magazines, which have been piling up on my desk for more months than I care to admit. I finally have a worthy candidate to replace "Thwart not the librarian" in my e-mail sig file.
Incidentally, the quote happened to come from a comic drawn by the person who was, in large part, responsible for me joining the library and archives profession, Kappa Waugh. She was my supervisor at my very first library job, which was a work-study position in the inter-library loan office at the Vassar College library. I hadn't really thought much about her in years, but when I became a member of ACRL a year or so ago, I started getting this news magazine, and I noticed that every issue featured a funny comic. It turns out those comics are drawn by my old boss, K. Waugh. I suppose that illustrates (pun intended) why she was the kind of person who turned me on to librarianship, even though my job was actually pretty boring.
In case anyone cares, the old sig file quote, "Thwart not the librarian," comes from Erica Olsen, who runs the Librarian Avengers web site. I'll be sad to see it go, but sig files, like all other information, must eventually be assimilated by the all-powerful Borg Google.
Another thought: Maybe some day I'll actually be able to come up with a pithy quote for my sig file instead of plagiarizing from more witty people.
P.S. Confidential to mom: Happy birthday!
Resistance is futile!
:) A