A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
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.”
Read this article in its entirety: New York Times
Saturday, July 07, 2007
Posted by BookBitch at 7/07/2007 04:16:00 PM
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