awesome librarians

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a group for librarians - c'mon, there have to be SOME of you on here

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>> Lady C. says:

I work in the ARCHIVES in a library. It's cool.

posted Jan 11

Spencer says:

I work as a reference librarian. My job is easy, so I bang my head agaist the wall of red tape until I wear myself out.

posted Jul 19

Kilgore says:

Here's a little article from NYTimes.com called "A hipper crowd of shushers." by Kara Jesella

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."

posted Jul 12

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Aaron Dietz says:

They are not all like the librarian action figure, that's for sure.

posted Jul 12

Spencer says:

I'm sorry, but I did not get "cool," "hip," or "hep cat" vibes from that article. I got an article about dorky librarians who were trying really hard to convince other people how cool they really were. In fact, by my calculations, the more a group tries to impress the fact that they are cool, the less cool they actually are. We should embrace the uncool factor and be who we are instead of trying to be "hipsters." (I hate that word by the way... definitely NOT cool).

posted Jul 18

Aaron Dietz says:

I didn't actually read the article, but I am plenty convinced library people are cool. Though, I'm sure my measurement of "cool" is different than the societal standards that this article may employ....

posted Jul 21

Aaron Dietz says:

I spent almost a decade doing everything from shelving to Web design for libraries. I'm not technically a librarian, but I fully support them and I know how awesome the awesome librarians can be.

posted May 22

Kilgore says:

I used to play a reference librarian on weekends. I'm currently a web developer, information architect, flash designer and a hundred other things at a public library.

posted Apr 17

Travis says:

I am a future librarian, and I work in the circulation dept! This is really cool, I need to let the FLA members know. (Future Librarians Association - Michigan chapter)

posted Mar 18

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