Meet Ralph Wittington: Former LC Librarian and Current Curator at the Museum of Sex
Librarian--Profiles
Source: The Washington Post Meet Ralph Whittington: Former LC Librarian Who's Now the Curator at NYC's Museum of Sex
We had a quote from Whittington in yesterday's postings. Today, The Post has a complete profile of the former curator of the LC Main Reading Room. From the article, For 36 years -- until his retirement in 2000 -- Whittington worked at the Library of Congress. He started out fetching books and ended up as curator of the Main Reading Room. Along the way, he was given the responsibility of overseeing the library's collection of phone books....Whittington started collecting smut just for his own, um, edification. But then, in the early '70s, he had an epiphany: The Library of Congress was collecting nearly every variety of printed matter -- even phone books, for crying out loud! -- but not porn. Apparently, it was up to him to preserve the X-rated aspects of America's glorious heritage. "All I did was use the same techniques that archivists use for other subjects on this subject," he says. "I hope you'll convey to your readers that I'm serious about this..."
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