Archive of Librarians in popular culture

Libraries and the people who work in them

on June 27th, 2003 in Cornell, Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship by | Comments Off

Hey, big news! Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian is now online in a nice temporary format. In other news, this blog has been discovered by people at work, so now I have to be extra careful not to mention how frightening I find the…

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Hooray Hooray the ALA

on June 25th, 2003 in ALA, Books, Cornell, Digital Library, Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship, Shopping by | Comments Off

Oh that wacky American Library Association convention. Imagine, if you will, 50 billion librarians wandering around downtown Toronto. Yes, it looked like that. I did a bit of shopping on Sunday afternoon, and had the honor of being informed by a salesgirl that a librarian had appeared on TLC’s A…

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Revolting Librarians Redux

on April 22nd, 2003 in Avenging, Books, Cornell, information science, Librarians in popular culture, Librarianship, Library school by | Comments Off

The section of the library dedicated to books on librarianship is located outside my office door. I thumbed through a few of them this morning. I was curious what a book on librarianship looked like, since I never really saw that many at “library school”. Most were from the 70s…

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