7.10.2007

It's cool to be...Librarian

The universe is still deciding the fate of my life, it seems.



In the meantime, have you seen this NY Times article on "the new Librarian?" Here's an excerpt:



Librarians? Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?
Not any more. With so much of the job involving technology and with a focus now on finding and sharing information beyond just what is available in books, a new type of librarian is emerging — the kind that, according to the Web site Librarian Avengers, is “looking to put the ‘hep cat’ in cataloguing.”




And don't forget to visit Library Net while you're at it.