[Publib] Architecture AL Issue

[Sharon Foster]

Maybe it's just me--I'm a new librarian, but closer in age to the era
of "Desk Set," not "Party Girl"--but I associate the image of "the
librarian stereotype of the lady with a bun, practical dress and
shoes" with a beautiful Carnegie-era library rather than something
modern but impractical and unattractive.

Sharon M. Foster, 91.7% Librarian
Speaker-to-Computers
http://www.vsa-software.com/mlsportfolio/






On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Steve Benson <swbenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm all for practicality but hate to encourage libraries to be bogged down
> with boring, boxy buildings.  Do we really want our buildings to mimic the
> librarian stereotype of the lady with a bun, practical dress and shoes?
> Beauty in buildings may add impracticality but it can also add inspiration
> to all who pass by or enter.  Isn't inspiration something that we aspire to?
>
> No people in the photographs presenting new buildings? What's the fuss?
> Anyone who has sold a home knows that you clean and arrange your home in a
> fashion that's nothing like how you normally keep it.  You're selling a
> house and preparing a salable image rather than presenting YOUR normal life
> to potential buyers.  Same with the building shots.  The photographers are
> capturing the building and disorder, people and things, only draw your
> attention away from the true subject of the photograph.
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