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You shouldn't judge a book by its cover!

The latest in a long run of articles from the Guardian looks at the role of a Librarian. Some highlights from the article (which made us chuckle);

• "It is a proper profession, you know, like law or accounting"
• "...librarians, by reputation, are meant to be easy to forget about. They are said to be people who only assert their existence on the rest of us, if they really must, with an occasional fine or explosive shush"
• "...does any truth remain in the old librarian stereotype? "I assume we're thinking of somebody fairly elderly with a bun, and quite fierce? That kind of stereotype?" Actually, I was thinking of the other one - the mild-mannered, mousey librarian stereotype"

Apart from the extracts above which stand out it is actually quite a good article. Interspersed with the usual journalistic obsessions with our image/stereotype. I wonder if this is the first thing journalists are taught at Journalism School...Librarians are Mousey!

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on March 16, 2009 (boomark / email).