The Song of the Library Staff

(M02)

Oh, joy! to see the Library staff perpetually jogging

And to see the Cataloger in the act of cataloging

(…)

All the ologies of the colleges, all the isms of the schools,

All the unassorted knowledges she assorts by Cutter’s rules;

Or tags upon each author in large labels that are gluey

Their place in Thought’s great Pantheon in decimals of Dewey;

Oh, joy! to see the Library staff perpetually jogging,

And to see the Cataloger in the act of cataloging.

By Sam Walter Foss, Librarian of Somerville (Mass.) Public Library

Read at the 1906 ALA Annual Conference (Auszug, mehr …)