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@jalefkowit The guy considered the father of interlibrary loan, and who pushed hardest for the establishment of the Boston Public Library system, was a 19th century French dude who financed his philanthropy to libraries and museums with money he earned through...
Wait for it...
Ventriloquism.
Not the kind with a dummy, but basically modern voice acting. He'd perform plays where he did all the parts, imitating different voices and projecting them as needed.
(He originally trained as a surgeon. They threw him out of the study program because he kept making the cadavers talk during practice procedures.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Vattemare if you're interested.
@camwyn @jalefkowit Great achievements no doubt. But it’s clearly easier to sway decision makers when you can pretend by yourself that you’re a committee with at least a dozen members. 
I’ll get my coat…
@camwyn @jalefkowit This is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
@camwyn @jalefkowit …. Why did i not learn this in library school
Oh thank God! I was sure it was going to be "slavery".
@jztusk @jalefkowit nope, not this time!
@camwyn This is such a pleasing thing to learn. Just when I thought inter-library loans couldn't be any more magical than they already are. Thanks for sharing this.
@camwyn @jalefkowit That's great! Why have I not heard this factoid before? It's up there with construction the 'castle' across the street from the Boston Park Plaza hotel having been partly financed by an OPERA about TOBASCO.
God I love freaky historical trivia like this.