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A review by rebeccacider
This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson
4.0
This book was definitely a great advertisement for the profession, especially as it was written by someone outside the profession. Its evocation of the tattooed knitting zinester librarian cliche (certainly better than the shushing bun cliche) could have become a wee bit silly, but I think it mostly managed not to.
*browses other reviews* No, it wasn't a serious-minded document that used dollar signs and political philosophy to change the way government and citizens think about libraries, but it was a charismatic document that will make people question the "libraries are obsolete" fallacy. It does what it sets out to do, I think.
It was a major oversight for there to be an entire chapter about Second Life and hardly a mention of school librarians (whose presence in a school is shown statistically to raise test scores). Maybe I'm just bitter because my computer isn't fast enough to really run Second Life.
I could also have used a feminist-analysis-of-the-history-of-librarianship chapter, but that might have come on a little strong. ;)
*browses other reviews* No, it wasn't a serious-minded document that used dollar signs and political philosophy to change the way government and citizens think about libraries, but it was a charismatic document that will make people question the "libraries are obsolete" fallacy. It does what it sets out to do, I think.
It was a major oversight for there to be an entire chapter about Second Life and hardly a mention of school librarians (whose presence in a school is shown statistically to raise test scores). Maybe I'm just bitter because my computer isn't fast enough to really run Second Life.
I could also have used a feminist-analysis-of-the-history-of-librarianship chapter, but that might have come on a little strong. ;)