Madeleine Lefebvre is Librarian of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax Nova Scotia and a former President of the Canadian Library Association. She’s also been a professional actress (a court stenographer in a John Cusack movie and Queen Elizabeth in radio commercials) and now…she’s an author.
Her new book is “The Romance of Libraries”; an entertaining and often inspiring look at couples who’ve met in libraries, stolen a kiss in libraries, married in libraries, broken up in libraries, and those who’ve passed along the love of libraries to their friends and their children. It’s proof that in this day and age of virtual libraries and e-braries, there’s still nothing like the wonderful look, smell, feel, and touch of the library and its papery contents.
You’ll enjoy “The Romance of Libraries”…not to mention it’s a great gift for that special someone on Valentine’s Day. Scarecrow Press, Inc.
$25.00 Paper 0-8108-5352-3 Nov 2005 224pp.
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Madeleine Lefebvre is Librarian of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax Nova Scotia and a former President of the Canadian Library Association. She’s also been a professional actress (a court stenographer in a John Cusack movie and Queen Elizabeth in radio commercials) and now…she’s an author.
Her new book is “The Romance of Libraries”; an entertaining and often inspiring look at couples who’ve met in libraries, stolen a kiss in libraries, married in libraries, broken up in libraries, and those who’ve passed along the love of libraries to their friends and their children. It’s proof that in this day and age of virtual libraries and e-braries, there’s still nothing like the wonderful look, smell, feel, and touch of the library and its papery contents.
You’ll enjoy “The Romance of Libraries”…not to mention it’s a great gift for that special someone on Valentine’s Day. Scarecrow Press, Inc.
$25.00 Paper 0-8108-5352-3 Nov 2005 224pp.
Worldcat listing
For the full review, click “Read More”…
As the book is a compilation of stories from authors all over the globe, there’s a great deal of variety in the writing. Some of the authors choose to remain anonymous even though they’ve revealed their deepest secrets to us and of course, some write better than others, but in the end, they’re all quite endearing as they involve the discovery and revelation of our most precious emotion…feelings of love. Chapters include “Reading Room Romance”, “Bookmobile Romance”, “The Romance of Library School” and “The Romance of Library Conferences”.
In this last chapter, there’s the story of Paul (excerpts used here with permission of the publisher):
“My wife and I met at a library conference held in Providence, RI, In April 1998. At the time I was living and working in a library in South Florida, and she was doing the same in Alberta. We ended up attending the same social event on the first night of the conference, and spent the evening talking about many things, including, of course, favorite books.” An e-mail relationship ensued which blossomed into love”. Paul later moved to Canada in the fall of 1999, and they now “have two little bookworms” of their own.
{Any great love stories from San Antonio??}
Here’s one from “The Romance of Special Libraries” by Erda:
“I met my husband at the place where I was the librarian, and he, an astronomer. We were located at two thousand four hundred meters altitude, and could enjoy the fabulous southern sky. He would go to the library and borrow some books, which I noticed he would return sooner than the other scientists! Since my schedule was to work at the mountain every two weeks, it was a different setting for romance. Instead of the city, we had the mountains, and the most glorious sunsets. He proposed one evening, when the sun was about to disappear in the horizon, and together we saw the rare green flash. We are happy after twenty years of marriage.”
For those of you who are looking for a “yeah, we did it in the library” book, this is not it. There are books, articles, blogs and even an on-line test available elsewhere. Although Lefebvre thought of including a chapter that consisted of “grappling in the stacks”, she later determined that it didn’t really fit in with the overall theme of romance. I think she made the right call.
The Foreword is by ALA President Michael Gorman (and whether or not you’re a supporter of his, he expounds beautifully on the theme of the book…quoting Jimmy Buffett among others). You’ll enjoy “The Romance of Libraries”…not to mention it’s a great gift for that special someone on Valentine’s Day. Scarecrow Press, Inc.
$25.00 Paper 0-8108-5352-3 Nov 2005 224pp.
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