The image of public libraries is changing…and the initiative created by Columbus Metropolitan Library called “Learn & Play” is just one testament to the many new images that are attaching themselves to libraryland.
Excerpt from "A Hipper Crowd of Shushers":
Librarians? Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacledThe rest of the article can be found here:
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.”
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
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