Have I ever sung to you my rhapsody to reference librarians? I think they are like philosopher kings in their value to a society. I think that the rule oughta be that reference librarians' salaries are indexed to the average of (1) U.S. Senators, (2) NBA basketball players and (3) rock musicians ... since they are clearly more valuable to society than any of those three categories.

And people who volunteer at the local library get a LOT of time off from Purgatory, at least in my cosmology.