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OCD dreams can come true: blogger Emdashes has managed to score herself the top two cardigan-wearing New Yorker librarians, Jon Michaud and Erin Overbey, to write her new column, Ask the Librarians (see, this is what happens when your gilded publishing house can't get its online ass in gear — the employees give the content to blogs). When we first heard about this, we were under the impression that it was to be an Ask the New Yorker feature, so we had inquisitive readers come up with some pressing issues deserving of an answer. While librarians aren't quite as exciting as le Gopnik, we're sure they can nonetheless entertain. Right?

Q. When was the last typewriter spotted in the office?

Jon writes: Today. There are three typewriters in the library (two IBM Wheelwriters and a Brother ML 300). Though the majority of our work is done on computers—and has been for some time now—there are still a few archival resources we maintain with typewriters. We're the only department in the office that still uses typewriters on a regular basis.

Mmhmm...huh wha? Sorry, fell asleep. For chrissakes, can't we address something a little more pressing? Like, when the hell are they going to put Lillian Ross out of her misery?

Ask the Librarians: the Debut [Emdashes]
Earlier: Burning Questions for the 'New Yorker'