{"id":2660,"date":"2016-07-06T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T21:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:35:02","slug":"librarian-bad-assery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2016\/07\/06\/librarian-bad-assery\/","title":{"rendered":"librarian bad-assery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2016\/06\/badass-librarians-joshua-hammer-timbuktu-manuscript-al-qaeda\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2666\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/02timbuktulibrarians-adapt-470-1.jpg?w=198\" alt=\"02timbuktulibrarians.adapt.470.1\" width=\"99\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/02timbuktulibrarians-adapt-470-1.jpg 470w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/02timbuktulibrarians-adapt-470-1-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 99px) 100vw, 99px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-2671 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/01timbuktulibrarians-ngsversion-1465334727983-adapt-1190-1.jpg?w=600\" alt=\"01timbuktulibrarians.ngsversion.1465334727983.adapt.1190.1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/01timbuktulibrarians-ngsversion-1465334727983-adapt-1190-1.jpg 1190w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/01timbuktulibrarians-ngsversion-1465334727983-adapt-1190-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/01timbuktulibrarians-ngsversion-1465334727983-adapt-1190-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/01timbuktulibrarians-ngsversion-1465334727983-adapt-1190-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2016\/07\/01timbuktulibrarians-ngsversion-1465334727983-adapt-1190-1-624x416.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I ordered Joshua Hammer&#8217;s book for my library when I first read a review of it, months ago. Today a friend suggested the story of these &#8220;bad-ass&#8221; librarians as a shenanigan, and I have to agree.\u00a0 Smuggling controversial manuscripts to safety is the kind of dangerous and non-goofy shenanigan librarians were kinda born to do.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/littlemyths-dms.blogspot.com\/\">Daniel M. Shapiro<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I ordered Joshua Hammer&#8217;s book for my library when I first read a review of it, months ago. Today a friend suggested the story of these &#8220;bad-ass&#8221; librarians as a shenanigan, and I have to agree.\u00a0 Smuggling controversial manuscripts to safety is the kind of dangerous and non-goofy shenanigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-GU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}