The Librarian Stereotype is Alive and Well
I was training, along with a co-worker, some Grade Six and Seven students in how to search the library catalogue the other day, and the teacher wanted us to cover how to think about a question and focus a search.
Before I got into hardcore classification issues, I asked the students this question: "What do you think librarians do all day?" Here are the answers I got:
- sit around
- play on their computers
- say "Shhhhh"
- check out books
- put books in order
- read
- help people find books
- tell people about their fines
I told them that actually I was a supersleuth who solved mysteries all day, helping people find information. Either, they were impressed with me or they thought I was a complete geek.
The fact that I have no sense of which way they leaned on this question suggests the latter...
I guess we have a lot of work to do on our image.
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