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Artikeln "The scissor sister" i The Observer, om Edda Tasiemka som verkar äga ett gigantiskt privat pressklippsbibliotek ("The Hans Tasiemka Archive") som används av journalister och författare, innehåller flera intressanta detaljer (Jonas har plockat upp frasen "The human Google"). Jag fastnar för organisationsprincipen (den personliga och myllrande):

[there are] hundreds and hundreds of buff folders with titles like 'My Father Stole My Husband', 'Seven-Year Itch', 'Runaway Mothers-in-Law' - meat and drink to daytime television shows such as Trisha.

It is an idiosyncratic filing system but it seems to work. In fact, it works far more quickly and efficiently than any other library I know.

Google, maskinversionen tar mig till crime-författaren Anthony Frewin, som utnyttjat biblioteket för research om ett mord:

I phoned Edda and on the off chance asked her whether she had a file on Claudie's death? She said murders are filed under the murderer's name and did I have that name? I told her that I didn't even know if the murderer had been discovered. "Oh", she said. However, Claudie Delbarre's name seemed to ring a bell. She would check and call me back. And she did. She had found a file. The murderer had been discovered. I asked her to photocopy the clippings and a couple of days later I got them in the post. (Min fetstil; från "The Chelsea Girl, the Playboy, the Honest Cop and the Proven Lawyer").

» Tidigare inlägg i min idiosynkratiska serie om idiosynkratiska bibliotek: "Magiskt bibliotek", "Organisationsprinciper, igen" och "Hitta grejer".