Wily Librarians and Donkey Carts to the Rescue!** This Story is Similar to What That Librarian in Basra Did in Iraq. Perhaps Librarians Could Save Us All. (Another 420 Character Piece in Nine Lines But Minus the Birds)

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Librarians and a donkey cart take on al Qaedas–

a victory in Timbuktu.

Those Neanderthals* torched ancient papers as they were driven out,

but what they didn’t know,

being Neaderthals,

is that the librarians had backed up the papers digitally

and smuggled 300,000 of the most ancient artifacts off in a donkey cart.

Every beleagured city needs such relief.

We need some librarian-and-the-donkey-cart actions here at home.

PATTY 2/4/13

*My apologies to the Neaderthals; I know their star has risen and we all probably have Neaderthal genes within us, I mean, look at my forehead! (www.huffingtonpost.com/…/surprising-way-your-neand_b_568455….; news.softpedia.com › News › Science › Behavior/Humans)

**Just read that the NYT is onto this story too…http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/world/africa/saving-timbuktus-priceless-artifacts-from-militants-clutches.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

A worker looks after Islamic manuscripts in Timbuktu’s Ahmed Baba Institute in 2004.

Photograph by Ben Curtis; Article by Peter Gwin inNational Geographic News

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/news/culture-places-news/mali-crisis-gwin2-vin/

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(Below are two books that celebrate librarians.)

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