"They*re Everywhere You Go*: Hip and Cool Librarians
***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
Colleagues/
The New York Times had a GreatArticle this past Sunday that
has been
The Number One e-mailed NYT article for the past 24-36+
hours: *A
Hipper Crowd of Shushers.*
I blogged tantalizing [ ] portions
of the piece in my _Friends_ blog
on Saturday
[
http://onlinesocialne
tworks.blogspot.com/2007/07/theyre-everywhere-you-go-hip-and
-cool.html
]
<QUOTE>
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.*
[snip]
*We*re not the typical librarians anymore,* said Rick Block,
an
adjunct professor at the Long Island University Palmer
School and at the
Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science,
both graduate
schools for librarians, in New York City.
[snip]
*I think we*re getting more progressive and hipper,* said
Carrie
Ansell, a 28-year-old law librarian in Washington.
[snip]
Still, these are high-tech times. Why are people getting
into this
profession when libraries seem as retro as the granny
glasses so many of
the members of the Desk Set wear?*Because it*s cool,* said
Ms.
Gentile, who works at the Brooklyn Museum.
*People I, going in, would never have expected were from the
library
field,* she said. *Smart, well-read, interesting, funny
people, who
seemed to be happy with their jobs.*
[snip]
Since matriculating to Palmer, Ms. Falgoust has met plenty
of other
like-minded librarians at places such as Brooklyn Label, a
restaurant,
and at Punk Rope, an exercise class. *They*re everywhere you
go,*
she said.
[snip]
How did such a nerdy profession become cool - aside from the
fact that
a certain amount of nerdiness is now cool? Many young
librarians and
library professors said that the work is no longer just
about books but
also about organizing and connecting people with
information, including
music and movies.
[snip]
Jessamyn West, 38, an editor of *Revolting Librarians Redux:
Radical
Librarians Speak Out* ... [snip] agreed that many new
librarians are
attracted to what they call the *Library 2.0* phenomenon.
*It*s
become a techie profession,* she said.
In a typical day, Ms. West might send instant and e-mail
messages to
patrons, many of who do their research online rather than in
the
library. She might also check Twitter, MySpace and other
social
networking sites, post to her various blogs and keep current
through
MetaFilter and RSS feeds. Some librarians also create Wikis
or
podcasts.
[snip]
</QUOTE>
BTW: Just This Past Friday, I Told Two Patrons To *Stay
Cool* As
They Left Our New RefDesk (Because of The HotHot Weather
That Was/Is
Roasting/Toasting Iowa as It Was/Is Much of The U. S.)
Our Tech Support Person Who Was On Duty With Me Found It
Odd * He*s
in His 20*s and Thought The Phrase Was Something That A
Librarian
Wouldn*t Say. As We Left For The Day, I Reminded Him to
*Stay
Cool* and We Smiled.
Little Did I / We Know: I*ve / We've Always Been
"Cool" [ [AND
... Hip] [:->
BTW: Don*t Forget To CheckOut The Associated Image in The
Blog Post
[
http://onlinesocialne
tworks.blogspot.com/2007/07/theyre-everywhere-you-go-hip-and
-cool.html
]
Enjoy! And Happy Monday !!!
/Gerry
Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library
Ames IA 50011
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