Karen Blakeman was kind enough to tag me for this exercise. Some people get very sniffy about such things, but the meme, as I must call it, is an interesting way to trace how things spread.
So I must offer five little-known things about myself. These are:
1. I did not always want to work in the library and information sector. Early ambitions included soldier, an ambition I abandoned on my political awakening, priest, as a result of a brief early adolescent bout of religious mania, and university academic; I was brought up in Cambridge after all.
2. I used to play the clarinet and saxophone, the former quite well, though I say so as shouldn't. I am currently thinking of taking up the cello, in the hope that my arthritic fingers can be coaxed into playing parts of the Bach cello suites
3. I only once won a prize at school, the Old Persean Society's essay prize. I wrote supporting Marx's dictum, "Die Religion... ist das Opium des Volkes". I think mine must have been the only entry.
4. I have the following scars:
a) one above my left eyebrow, from a school rugby injury
b) one on my left elbow, sustained while falling thorough a glass window while drunk
c) one on my groin, from a hernia operation. The surgeon made a conventional, rather than a mesh, repair.
5. I am adopted. Both my natural father and my adoptive father were doctors.
I now have to inflict this on five more people. So I nominate the following:
John Kirriemuir: expert on all things gaming and all things Hebridean
Ian Snowley: please be upstanding for next year's CILIP President
Ben Toth: a pithy guide to what's up in NHS libraries, and much more besides
T.Scott Plutchak: eminence grise of US health librarianship
Claudia Chauchat of Letters from a Librarian: here you will find nothing about the merits or otherwise of Browne issue or the tribulations of electronic journal access, but you will find a great deal of sensitive, perceptive and evocative writing.
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