RE: Lancet November 8th issue on Open Access

["Ruth Connell" <connell@jcu.edu>]

To set the record straight: Although we need all the saints we can get,
Jerome is the patron saint of libraries, Laurence is the ptron saint of
cooks.  St. Isadore of Seville has been proposed as the patron saint of
the Internet.  Addidtionally, I'm quite sure there are several
unrecognized saints among librarians :)

Ruth Connell
Cataloging & Systems Units Leader
Grasselli Library
John Carroll University
20700 North Park Blvd.
University Heights, Ohio  44118
ph. 216.397.1635
fax 216.397.1809
email connell@jcu.edu 

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Subject: RE: Lancet November 8th issue on Open Access

A reaction to Jill Emery

... Just for fun and to see what would come up, I did a Google(TM)
search under the Images tab for "Saint Jerome, patron saint of
librarians" which resulted in no images being found...

because:

As far as I know is Saint Laurence patron saint of librarians and not
Saint Jerome. Saint Jerome is the patron saint of the scientists and
translators. Untill now we do have research, and storage and retrieval
secured by Saint Jerome and Saint Laurence.

So we need a third patron saint for internet publishing. So we need to
call the patron saint of internet Isodorus (of Sevilla). These three
saints are the holy trinity of modern publishing: scientific research,
storage and retrieval, and publishing on internet ;-)

With kindness,

Han Belt
Walaeus Library

Leiden University Medical Center
The Netherlands
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