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Anne Johnston

Friday 13 October 2006

See Taggart last Friday night? An interesting twist on the middle-aged librarian who still lives with his mum stereotype. No, still not the rant about stereotyping. One line made me giggle. The gist was that fraternising with one's colleagues is disapproved of in the library service. This set me off thinking about various websites which use humour to shed an insight into the world of libraries.

For an insider's view of customer relations try If you don't want it, the library doesn't want it or for "hard-core" library humour try Googling Lipstick Librarian or Librarian Avenger.

I particulary like this image which I came across recently at www.speedbump.com. Look for the section called "Are you a Librarian?".

The idea of a librarian as search engine brought to mind David Weinberger's session at SETT. It was called Everything is Miscellaneous and looked at new ways of organising and storing knowledge. He made a statement which keeps popping up in my head, especially when anyone mentions information literacy - Libraries separate ideas. Do they? and if they do is this a bad thing?

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