Holy Grail!! Library chic meets Ms. Rambo! I love this!!
If we can't poke fun at ourselves then who can?? My
"little people" would love this, I could use it as a
reward for the best class of the week. They could keep it
in the room with them for a week at a time. Would that I
looked good in a bun, sigh.
Angela Wilcox
Media Specialist
I. Ellis Johnson Elementary School
Laurinburg, NC
awilcox@scsnc.org
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 18:35:26 -0500
sbrisco <sbrisco021@CHARTER.NET> wrote:
> 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
> =20=
> >
> > an unabashed booster of her profession: "The role of a
> librarian is to
> =20=
> >
> > make sense of the world of information. If that's not a
> qualification =20=
> >
> > for superhero-dom, what is?"
> >
> > Yep, that's us!
> >
> > Then came "...quintessential librarian-... iron fist
> inside a velvet =20
> > glove. And she doesn't take herself too seriously."
> Hmmmmm. now that
> =20=
> >
> > one I guess is OK, but " iron fist in a velvet glove
> defines =20
> > 'quintessential librarian" "??? Guess I'd prefer other
> definitions.
> >
> > But then came the choice between the bun popping off
> (yep, my bun came
> =20=
> >
> > off years ago) or the removable book with the
> action-oriented shussing
> =20=
> >
> > finger. But sure wish Ms. Pearl had been a little
> more realistic when
> =20=
> >
> > she said " Pearl predicts that the shushing motion =97
> triggered by a =20=
> >
> > button on the doll's back =97 will determine "which
> librarians have a =20=
> >
> > 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. "
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Hainer, Gene
> wrote:
> >
> > > 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. ;-)
> > > ______________________________________
> > > Eugene Hainer
> > > Director, Library Development Services
> > > Colorado State Library, CDE
> > > hainer_g@cde.state.co.us
> > >
> > >
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