Abstract
One of the lighter forms of tomfoolery is the printing of spurious documents which cheerfully and sometimes fearfully resemble an original. The Old Librarian's by Philobiblos, alleged to be the work of one Jared Bean of Connecticut in 1773, actually was turned out by Edmund Lester Pearson in Asheville, NC, in 1909. Recently it was resuscitated and sent around as a Christmas token by Miss Gertrude Annan, the librarian of The New York Academy of Medicine. This Almanack gives a perceptive but antic description of the trials, tribulations, privileges, perquisites, and other attributes of librarians in general. It should be required reading for librarians as a species, and for anyone who uses a library. On the page opposite the Almanack's program and predictions for December, 1774, there are these words about librarians. There is none so Felicitous as the Librarian, and none with so small a cause of Ill-Content,
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