[Publib] pop culture on NPR

[Meghan Miller Brawley]

Kathleen, you're not the only one. From one of my favorite webcomics today:

http://catandgirl.com/?p=2115

Meghan Brawley
Reference librarian
Harker Heights, TX

On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Kathleen Stipek<kstipek at aclib.us> wrote:
> I really hope it’s just a personality failing of mine—one of ever so
> many--but I find these ‘down with the Dread Librarian Stereotype’ activities
> worse than the DLS.   Why do we even need them?  We have done nothing so
> dreadful that we have to humiliate ourselves just to get the public to
> thinking we’re wonderful.  We already ARE wonderful—there is no need to make
> ourselves ridiculous.  I don’t have a single DLS colleague—I may be the
> closest we have, being an overeducated elderly spinster—and not one of us
>  feels the need to put on a funny hat to prove we are really lovely people.
> Surely we have better things to do than that.
>
>
>
> Kathleen Stipek
>
> Alachua County Library District
>
> 401 East University Avenue
>
> Gainesville, Florida 32601
>
> 352-334-3931, fax 352-334-3939
>
>
>
> --Non, merci
>
>   Cyrano de Bergerac




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