Keskustelujen arkisto

Folks!

I take the liberty of forwarding this entry from the librarian's
stumpers list. It gives new insight in both library work
and the vocation of the three nephews. Especially considering
"Guardians of the Lost Library" the views below
are very apt. Enjoy!

Even

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>Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 19:00:53 -0500 (EST)
>From: Joe Gayda <(Email removed)>
>Subject: New names for librarians
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>Comments: STUMPERS-L - Difficult reference questions and answers
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>
> My partner Janet Stevenson and I have come up with several new names
>for those who work in libraries.
>
> We work in a corporate library in Maryland and much, if not most, of
>our time is spent working with computers. If we are not surfing the Net, we
>are compiling lists, cataloging the collection, working on the corporate Web
>Page (Janet is Webmaster), or simply learning new software packages.
>
> Since we work in a Microsoft Windows environment and are currently
>learning Windows 95, we are both sensitive to the terminology of this
>environment - especially that fascinating term "GUI" (Gooey). As most
>librarians know, "GUI" stands for "Graphical User Interface," the software
>devices which provide computer users with easy transparent ways to issue
>commands to their computers.
>
> One day Janet was contemplating GUIs and realized that reference
>librarians serve much the same function in libraries: we act as Human User
>Interfaces between our patrons and the information in the resources of our
>institutions, computers, or other information resources. That makes us
>"HUIs" (Hueys).
>
> Of course this leaves other librarians and library staff out of the
>picture, and that will never do. After a little thought, I realized that
>others in the library would fit in similar categories. For example, the
>library pages and check out personnel are Library User Interfaces between
>the library patron and the library books, periodicals, tapes, and other
>materials. That makes them "LUIs" (Louies). And of course there are those
>dedicated people who work long and hard cataloging the materials of our
>institutions and entering the data into the computer databases for our
>patrons - the Data User Interfaces, more appropriately called DUIs (or Deweys).
>
> So, there you have it: libraries are really made to function by
>that famous trio: Huey, Louie, and Dewey.
>
>
> Joe Gayda
>
>
>Janet Stevenson Joe Gayda
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>Webmaster Librarian
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Even Flood, Senior Research Librarian
Norwegian DIANE Center, Technical University Library of Norway
N 7034 Trondheim, Norway. Phone: +47 73 59 51 62, Fax +47 73 59 60 97
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"Come, and take choice of all my library, and so beguile thy sorrow."
(Shakespeare)

CHRISTER (in Digest 275):

> Does somebody know who have drawn the story "Leket=F8ys" in the norwegian
> DD&Co 50/51? The code is D96096 and the art is kind of dark and somewhat
> detailed, but not as detailed as Don Rosa's. It's about Donald becomming
> manager for a toyshop scrooge owns which has had several mystical breaking=
> ins.

The art is by Colomer. Writer is Gorm Transgaard (a Dane). FYI, Gorm
writes his stories as "scribbles" -- that is, he draws them all in much
the same way Barks drew his scripts for his Woodchuck stories. The
English title is just "Toy Store" (Bah! I know the English titles hardly
ever get used, but I'm still trying to get everyone to start putting a
*little* more thought into coming up with something that sounds nifty.)

Byron "Full of information today, totally silent tomorrow" Erickson

Marcus, Marco (Marca, Marcae, Marci):
> The story you mention is probably from UNCLE SCROOGE 5
> I ignore the original title (if any).

The story had no title.

> Maybe you can find something in
> the data base now that you know the original issue number?

Reprints in the USA:
Uncle Scrooge 189 (Western)
WDC Digest 1 (Western)
U$ Digest 4 (Gladstone)
Gladstone's Giant album #2
U$ Adventures in Color (CBL album) #5.

--Harry.

DON ROSA wrote:

>
>No, I certainly would never give Gyro's helper a name! "Edy"?!
>

So what happened with "Zio Paperone"?

>And what Luca is writing about Daisy Duck having a brother who is the father
>to April, May and June... did that also say that my Tree says that Daisy is
>the sister of whoever it was that married Della?

No, no, no! First of all, it's not Luca Boschi writing about the Duck family
tree. He just wrote one page about <From Duckburg to Lillehammer> and Don's
theory about the dicks' world being "frozen" in the 50's. There are five
pages devoted to Don's Duck Family tree, and they are credited to Lidia
Cannatella (!) and Alberto Becattini. However, on those no mention is made
either of Gyro's helper or of April, May and June Duck... My questions arose
(and still arise) from the tree itself: on this, as <friend to the Ducks>
Gyro is quoted with his helper, and the "English" caption says <Gyro
Gearloose and Edy>. Weird, huh? More: April, May and June are quoted as
<April Duck>, <May Duck> and <June Duck>.

To quote Rich Morrissey:

> No, their surname almost certainly isn't "Duck," since they're the
>daughters of Daisy's married sister. (No, they don't live with Daisy. They
>just visit sometimes.) This was established in their first appearance in
>Barks' classic story about Flipism.

So my question here is: did Don write these surnames in "his" tree?
Or was that another of good Lidia's fabulous ideas? (She is credited as the
<caretaker> of the tree!)

Marco

SOEREN: Gosh...hope that's spelled right...

The story you speak of is called "His Majesty, McDuck", and the english
name of Duckburg's founder is Cornelius Coot. Too bad they've serialized
it on you, the story was written as a one parter, and came out a number of
years ago in North America. But, it's still quite a good story!

-Shaun
...what am i talking about...of course it's a good story...Don wrote it...

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>Subject: Re: Disney comics Digest V96 #278
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>what is mr rosa address?
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Do these messages from "(Email removed)" originate from North America?

My address is "(Email removed)". But I won't answer anonymous messages, so
please be kind enough to include your full name. But don't worry if English
is your second language... I speak only one language, so I'm very tolerant
of those who bravely endeavor to speak two. At least, evidence leads me to
assume that English is your second language.

MARCO:
In the Italian version of "From Duckburg to Lillehammer", the story opens in
"Freezer City" and moves to "Lysgardsbakken"??? Whaaaat? Do they still use
"From Duckburg to Lillehammer" as the title? I mean, I can see why they
might want to eliminate the reference to the '94 Winter Olympics, but why
remove the references to Duckburg? And if they have text pieces and
explanations, why not use the original script and explain the story's
origins? Is this the work of the "Not Evil But Rather Mislead Translator"?

And no, I never referred to April, May and June as having any last names. I
assume the editors are simply trying to make those character names match the
form of all the other names on the Tree -- full first/last names. And
they're using the idea of "Duck" being a common last name. What else can
they do? It would look odd if those characters were the only ones with no
last names... and if they tried to be more creative, what could they use
that some reader wouldn't object to? "April Mallard"? "May Smith"? "June
Mxyzptlk"? I think this is more honest efforts from the "Not Evil Yet Doing
Her Best But Can't Win For Trying Translator".

SOEREN:
The story you refer to is "His Majesty McDuck" which was the story I was
working on for Gladstone when Disney enforced that no-return-of-art decree
on them that forced me to quit, but eventually resulted in my working for
Europe. The story title is what should have been in that scroll, and your
guess is as good as mine as to why they didn't place it there in that German
edition. As to what I had in the picture frame on the wall, I would guess
that it was a batch of coins... but you're saying they removed the coins,
yet still placed a translation of the exhibit's label? Strange and
mysterious things happen in these European translations!
It's not a multi-part story, however, so it will be interesting as to how
they break it into chapters. By the way, the point of the story was supposed
to be that $crooge is "King" of his hill because the complex events of
history dictated that his hill was never part of the United States... I hope
that's what is happening in that German translation, otherwise the rest of
the story won't make any sense.

By the way, no one has mentioned it here yet, but I believe that there's my
new chapter in "The Life and Times of $crooge McDuck"... or, at least, a new
story of $crooge's early years, whether it's part of the "Lo$" series or
not... in all the current Egmont weeklies in Europe (EXCEPT the German
ones). It's the one titled "The Vigilante of Pizen Bluff" and takes place in
Arizona in 1890.

Marco B.:
>Rosa's story is better, but is a 10-pager (sorry, a 12-pager) only. A
>question on this: if the title is "From Duckburg to Lillehammer", how come
>the plot takes place in <Freezer City> (?) for the first 9 pages and in
><Lysgardsbakken> (so says the caption) for the last three?

In the norwegian story the plot starts at "Sprengfrostnuten hotell" which is
not a city, but a hotel in mountains above Duckburg. Lysgardsbakken is the
name of the skijump arena in Lillehammer. So I guess the translaters made a
little mistake on the first one, if it says "city", but the second is
absolutely correct. Then how many outside Norway would now that
"Lysgardsbakken" is in Lillehammer?

~Christer - "There he goes - trying to get out of his share of work!"

Um... When I typed "MNKKU MAYC" in my previous message, I really meant
to type "MNKKN MAYC" (and the "N"s should still be backwards). Of
course, you all figured that out, right?

--Byron "He knew he'd screw it up" Erickson