{"id":6431,"date":"2015-09-30T08:12:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T12:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6431"},"modified":"2015-08-25T11:13:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T15:13:42","slug":"st-jerome-patron-saint-of-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/st-jerome-patron-saint-of-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Jerome: Patron Saint of Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast day of St. Jerome, patron saint of librarians, translators and encyclopedists.\u00a0 The Preus Library article by Jane Kemp skillfully describes his life and library:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luther.edu\/library\/about\/history\/40th\/jerome\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/5230931.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Jerome\u2019s personal library was considered to be the most important private collection of the period. He was a great bibliophile, interested in collecting both pagan and Christian books. His learning was considered unequaled during the time he lived since he was an insatiable reader and had a phenomenal memory for what he learned. Finally, his scholarship broke new ground with his translations of the Bible and Biblical commentaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luther.edu\/library\/about\/history\/40th\/jerome\/\">Library: St. Jerome: Patron Saint of Librarians<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the feast day of St. Jerome, patron saint of librarians, translators and encyclopedists.\u00a0 The Preus Library article by Jane Kemp skillfully describes his life and library: St. Jerome\u2019s personal library was considered to be the most important private collection of the period. He was a great bibliophile, interested in collecting both pagan and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2015\/09\/30\/st-jerome-patron-saint-of-librarians\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St. Jerome: Patron Saint of Librarians<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[48,73,230],"class_list":["post-6431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-holiday","tag-librarians","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8812,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/03\/18\/florida-love-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6431,"position":0},"title":"Florida love","author":"leems","date":"March 18, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Gatorland Zoo alligator statue, Route 1, St. Augustine, Florida Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http:\/\/hdl.loc.gov\/loc.pnp\/mrg.00267 Orange bird sign, Artesia Gardens Citrus Stand, Route A1A, Hammock, Florida Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 http:\/\/hdl.loc.gov\/loc.pnp\/mrg.01936 From John Margolies' Roadside America","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gatorlandsign-101x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gatorlandsign-101x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/gatorlandsign-101x150.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5168,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2014\/12\/07\/bibliofair\/","url_meta":{"origin":6431,"position":1},"title":"BiblioFair","author":"leems","date":"December 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Novel idea for putting your home library to work:\u00a0 BiblioFair | Book trading, exchanging and swapping made easier. It's interesting to me that this concept of home library exchange highlights the inadequacies of libraries to meet patron demand.\u00a0 Before libraries existed in this country home library exchange would have been\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6501,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/04\/11\/smells-like-library-by-tommy-kovac\/","url_meta":{"origin":6431,"position":2},"title":"Smells Like Library by Tommy Kovac","author":"leems","date":"April 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"On my last indie comics mining trip in Etsy I bought:\u00a0 Smells Like Library v. 2 Funny Library Comics from the tommykovac Etsy store.\u00a0\u00a0 Afterwards, I carried around the awesome bookmark it came with to remind me to talk about this a little more. 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