[WEB4LIB] CNN: Reference Librarians and the Internet

Gerry Mckiernan GMCKIERN at gwgate.lib.iastate.edu
Wed Nov 29 12:54:43 EST 2000


Hi Charles/

>>> "Gimon, Charles A" <CAGimon at mpls.lib.mn.us> 11/29/00 11:38AM >>>
>For those of you who haven't seen it yet:
>http://www.cnn.com/2000/CAREER/trends/11/28/librarians/index.html 
>Featuring Walter Gegner of the Minneapolis Public Library. 

        Thanks for this site!

>(We Rule! Yeah!)

     Yes and No [:-)]
      How far *have* we come? The graphic shows a multi-tasking individual with a glasses and bun in her hair; this to me harkens back to the stereotypic image of the over-worked (and under-paid) spinster librarian.
[Anyone else see it this way?]

/Gerry McKiernan
MultiTasked Librarian 
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu 

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