( CNN ) -- Librarians , information specialists , knowledge managers or whatever title a librarian might have -- their skills are in high demand . And , though you might not know it , they are everywhere . And so in their honor during National Library Week , we enjoy the following tidbits of information . Famous people who were librarians . FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover , Casanova , Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir , former first lady Laura Bush and China 's Mao Zedong . At one point in their lives , each of them either worked as librarian or in a library . Librarians are techno-savvy . Librarians do n't just use books anymore . Searching through tweets , blogs , podcasts , websites and more to find accurate and authoritative information has become more the rule than the exception . At a time where anyone can Google just about anything , librarians do n't just find information , they find the correct information -- and fast . The American Library Association reports reference librarians in the nation 's public and academic libraries answered nearly 5.7 million questions each week in 2010 . Filmmaker 's library . Even `` Star Wars '' creator George Lucas has his own research library on his Skywalker Ranch . Lucas started the library in 1978 , and the collection is housed under a large stained-glass dome . Librarians influence our culture and society . While clearing out old archives at the Palmer Theological Seminary in 2005 , librarian Heather Carbo found a working manuscript of one of Beethoven 's final compositions . Librarians track spy info and classified intelligence . When the CIA needs to provide information to the U.S. president , they turn to their librarians . To become one of the U.S. intelligence 's community research experts , a librarian must pass medical and psychological exams , polygraph interviews and clear extensive background investigations . Librarians are heroic . Alia Muhammad Baker , the chief librarian of Basra , Iraq , removed 30,000 books from the city 's main library before it was destroyed during the 2003 invasion of Iraq . Their numbers are many . In 2009 , there were 206,000 librarians , 50,000 library technicians and 96,000 other education , training and library workers . Librarians are behind the scenes in current events . -- Federal government shutdown . Lawmakers go to the Congressional Research Service , a division of the Library of Congress , for information . -- The royal wedding at Westminster Abbey . The Abbey 's Library and Muniment Room has a historic collection of books , manuscripts and archival material . -- NATO no-fly zone over Libya . NATO 's Brussels Headquarters houses a multimedia library with a collection focusing on international relations , security and defense , military questions and world affairs . Warning to readers about librarians . A character in `` The Callahan Touch '' , one of science fiction writer Spider Robinson 's books , said , `` Librarians are the secret masters of the universe . They control information . Never piss one off . '' Good advice . Kerith Page McFadden has a masters of library science from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and has been a librarian at CNN for the past 12 years .
It 's National Library Week ; past library workers include world leaders and a famous lover . ` `` The Callahan Touch '' creator George Lucas has his own research library on his Palmer Theological . The chief librarian of Iraq , Basra , removed 30,000 books from library before it was destroyed . A librarian found one of George Lucas 's final compositions at Palmer Theological .