[Web4lib] "They*re Everywhere You Go*: Hip and Cool Librarians

[Tracey.Reed at myClearwater.com]

Oh, so very right Brian.  Thanks for pointing it out.  And you know, anyplace that we can transcend the stereotype is a good thing.  

FWIW, there was also an interesting essay on Usability Engineers in yesterday's NYT:
http://tinyurl.com/29lbjs

Yes, we're wildly off topic with this, so I share the following and then leave it alone:
http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/050907/librarians-cant-read.gif

-t, hip librarian who transcends most of the stereotypes


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org on behalf of Brian Gray
Sent: Mon 7/9/2007 5:56 PM
To: schwartz at mnstate.edu
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Subject: Re: [Web4lib] "They*re Everywhere You Go*: Hip and Cool Librarians
 
It was not written as "news". It was an article in the FASHION
section, not news section or careers section. It was about clothing
and style trends.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com

On 7/9/07, Larry Schwartz <schwartz at mnstate.edu> wrote:
> I'd be happier if these alcohol-soaked, ambulance-chasing,
> graft-grabbing, ethically-impaired journalists didn't write stories
> where the discovery that librarians aren't Gorgons is touted as "news."
>
> Hmmm . . . maybe that's a letter to the editor.  ls.
>
> Bill Drew wrote:
> > If you look at some blogs you will see some librarians whining about
> > this piece of fluff journalism.  Some people are never happy!
> >
>
> --
> Larry Schwartz, Collection Management Librarian
> Livingston Lord Library
> Minnesota State University Moorhead
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>
> "I haven't failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work."
> Thomas Edison
> "A perfectly normal person is rare in our society."  Karen Horney
>
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Brian Gray
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