[lit-ideas] Re: Whose the Brainiest?
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 21:09:36 +0100
I'd have bet on OUP: three of their team work on the Oxford English
Dictionary -- I call that cheating. (Their token woman is a software
engineer.)
Friday, September 17, 2004, 6:45:30 PM, Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:
Eac> Hi,
Eac> Of course, you are all *almost* librarians on this list!
Eac> Best,
Eac> Marlena in Missouri
Eac> Librarian in LibraryLand
Eac> IT'S OFFICIAL -- LIBRARIANS RULED 'BRAINIEST' IN
Eac> UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE The British Library team
Eac> scored a decisive victory over the Oxford
Eac> University Press team in the BBC2's "University
Eac> Challenge -- the Professionals," a contest that
Eac> pitted professionals from 22 different areas of
Eac> expertise against each other to determine who the
Eac> brainiest professionals are. Among the professions
Eac> represented were diplomats, journalists, lawyers,
Eac> politicians and zoologists. The BL team attributed
Eac> their win to "team-work, a thirst for knowledge
Eac> and a real hunger to win." BL team captain Bart
Eac> Smith, a Humanities reference specialist, said,
Eac> "Our victory not only reflects the knowledge and
Eac> expertise of British Library staff but is a
Eac> tribute to the skills of the library profession,
Eac> whose members are true information providers with
Eac> an ability to access virtually every subject under
Eac> the sun, however seemingly obscure."
--
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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