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Owen Massey > Libraries
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When I grow up, I want to be a woman d'un certain âge living alone - or rather, not alone, living with her cats and her books. The big woolly jumper and the spectacles are desirable accessories. Yes, librarians like cats, and it's a lovely coincidence that I'm a cataloguer.
If you like cats too, you might enjoy the specialised collection
Cats, librarians, and libraries : essays for and about the Library Cat Society /
Phyllis Lahti, editor. - New York ; London ; Norwood (Australia) : Haworth, 1992. -
ix, 42 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
I'm keen to track down another book on this intersection of subjects,
Chats de bibliothèque / Michèle Sacquin. - Paris : Albin Michel, 1995. -
111 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - ISBN: 22-269-7558-5.
The library cat by Noel Peattie
Lucky Americans can refer to the library cats map of the US. See how many are called Dewey, and which have been challenged by allergic patrons.
'Library Cats' by Marti Attoun, cover story in American Profile, March 14-20, 2004.
The OCLC CatExpress competition is just an excuse for lots of photographs of cats next to books. Hurrah!
The reader's museum cat walk Feline librariana.
Clarence the Copy Cat by Patricia Lakin. Clarence takes up home in the public library after being ejected for refusing to kill a mouse.