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Yes...but how many of us will buy one just to be able to own one of the
first "librarian super-heroes" dolls?  (Remember last year's Barbie /
Librarian...which lost the votes for most popular Barbie choice?  I had my
credit card ready to buy, buy, buy!) Ha!

I'd put one in my office just as a conversation piece...which might be a
great opportunity to dispel any negative ideas about librarians.


~Shonda Brisco
Trinity Valley MS / US Librarian
Fort Worth, TX
sbrisco021@charter.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Martin Richardson" <rdrichardson@SNET.NET>
To: <LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:29 PM
Subject: Re: New librarian 'doll' on the market


> The article was rolling along so well with great quotes like "...she's
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> an unabashed booster of her profession: "The role of a librarian is to
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> make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification =20=
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> for superhero-dom, what is?"
>
> Yep, that's us!
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> Then came "...quintessential librarian-... iron fist inside a velvet =20
> glove.  And she doesn't take herself too seriously."  Hmmmmm.  now that
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> one I guess is OK, but " iron fist in a velvet glove defines =20
> 'quintessential librarian" "???  Guess I'd prefer other definitions.
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> But then came the  choice between the bun popping off (yep, my bun came
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> off years ago) or the removable book with the action-oriented shussing
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> finger.   But sure wish Ms. Pearl had been a little more realistic when
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> she said " Pearl predicts that the shushing motion =97 triggered by a =20=
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> button on the doll's back =97 will determine "which librarians have a =20=
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> sense of humor." She likes to believe that today's librarians are =20
> secure enough in their work that they won't take offense at the old =20
> clich=E9. "
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> My question-- then why perpetuate the old cliche??  That thought =20
> referred me back to the earlier quote of ""...she's an unabashed =20
> booster of her profession..."   Hmmmm.  Maybe an opportunity lost.
>
> Rebecca Martin-Richardson
> Media Specialist
> Kathleen E. Goodwin Elementary
> Old Saybrook, CT
> rdrich@osaykeg.org
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> On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Hainer, Gene wrote:
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> > I don't even want to know what LMNET readers will make of the new =20
> > librarian
> > doll. It was just announced in a Seattle newspaper:
> > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/=20
> > 135224851_librarian10.html.
> > Let's just say I'm not planning to drag out my chain-glasses, hair =20
> > bun, and
> > dress anytime soon. ;-)
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> > Eugene Hainer
> > Director, Library Development Services
> > Colorado State Library, CDE
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