[1]The Crack Squad of Librarians Who Track Down Half-Forgotten Books -
   Atlas Obscura:

     Before we each had a little, flickering encyclopedia in our hands,
     we had librarians, and they're still experts at finding the answers
     to tricky questions. Through the [2]Ask NYPL portal, a decades-old
     phone and text service, the staff [3]has triaged everything from
     queries about the Pope's sex life to what it means if you dream
     about being chased by elephants. The library staff are ace
     researchers with a massive trove at their fingertips. A sense of
     mystery in their work comes when people approach them with vague
     questions and patchy details-particularly when they're looking for
     books, but they don't remember the authors or titles.

   (Via [4]Atlas Obscura)

   My friend used to be employed as a librarian. I think they never stop
   being a librarian.

   My favorite librarian moments: talking [5]Twin Peaks when it was on its
   initial run; getting called out for not having read the [6]Iliad & the
   [7]Odyssey when I bragged about doing so (since corrected); the same
   librarian geeking out with me over the album [8]Nursery Crime by
   [9]Genesis; [10]doing a fun podcast with one.
   Also on:

   [11]Twitter
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   My original entry is here: [12]The Crack Squad of Librarians Who Track
   Down Half-Forgotten Books - Atlas Obscura. It posted Sun, 12 Aug 2018
   08:44:42 +0000.
   Filed under: culture,

References

   1. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/librarian-detectives-forgotten-books
   2. https://www.nypl.org/ask-nypl
   3. https://qz.com/732086/the-new-york-public-librarys-little-known-human-google-service-answers-any-question-by-phone/
   4. https://www.atlasobscura.com/
   5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks
   6. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliad
   7. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey
   8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery_Cryme
   9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(band)
  10. https://www.pvcsec.com/
  11. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/1028564129613860864
  12. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1447