On this same vein of librarian image - I was listening to an NPR station
over the weekend (can't remember the program) and they were talking about
Rosa Parks - the person being interviewed was talking about her life and how
she was perceived by people - how she came across as a prim little person -
like a librarian - but in fact was a formidable woman.
Toni Koontz
St.Charles Preparatory School
Columbus,Ohio
akoontz@cdeducation.org
Carpe Diem
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> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 10:20:14 -0500
> From: "Fitzgerald, Grace A" <grace-fitzgerald@UIOWA.EDU>
> Subject: Friday amusements--
>
> The University of Iowa Libraries is (single administrative entity)
> celebrating its sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary this year. We do
> exhibitions in the North Lobby of the Main Library, and the one that
> has been up this fall is about (gasp!) librarians--titled "Beyond the Bun
> :
> A Look Inside Librarian Culture." The following quotations were
> prominently displayed--
>
> "Beware the lustful fires that burn in a librarian's heart. They can
> rage beyond all control."
> --The Onion, May 28, 2003
>
> "Librarians possess a vast store of politeness. These people get asked
> every crazy question on God's green earth and they tolerate the cranks
> and eccentrics."
> --Garrison Keillor, Lives of the Cowboys
>
> "Libraries are brothels for the mind, and librarians are the madams,
> greeting customers, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and
> pimping books."
> --Guy Browning, The Guardian, October 18, 2003
>
> "He's like Super Librarian, y'know? Everyone forgets, Willow, that
> knowledge is the ultimate weapon."
> --Nicholas Brendon as Xander Harris in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
>
> "Librarians are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at
> the
> desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution,
> man."
> --Michael Moore, Buzz Flash Interviews, March 13, 2002
>
> "Show me a computer expert that gives a damn, and I'll show you a
> librarian."
> --Patricia Wilson Berger, Chicago Tribune, June 1990
>
> "If reference librarians were paid at market rates for all the roles
> they play, they would have salaries well over $200,000."
> --Will Manley, The Truth About Reference Librarians, 1996
>
> "In the nonstop tsunami of global information librarians provide us
> with floaties and teach us to swim."
> --Linton Weeks, Washington Post, January 13, 2001
>
> Grace Fitzgerald, University of Iowa=20
>
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