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What better way to prove that librarians have entered the 21st century than to get our own action figure? Nancy Pearl, author of Book Lust and executive director of the Seattle Public Library's Washington Center for the
Book, served as both inspiration and model for the figure.
Actually, the figure (below, left) has been quite controversial among librarians because of its "amazing shushing action" (press a lever in the back and the figure raises its fingers to its lips). In a CNN.com story dated Sept. 8, 2003, Diane DuBois, library director of Caribou Public Library in Caribou, Maine, was quoted as saying "The shushing thing just put me right over the edge. We're so not like that anymore. It's so stereotypical I could scream."
That's not what bothered us here in the Uni library -- we know we do a lot more than shushing people, and we think our patrons know that, too. What bothered us is that in the "shushing" position, it looks like Nancy Pearl is picking her nose (below, right).
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Librarian Nancy Pearl and some of her "accessories." If you watched the public service announcements that came at the end of old G.I. Joe cartoons, you'd know that Joe's motto was "Now we know, and knowing is half the battle." If he was so keen to know, why did he carry a gun instead of a book? |
You be the judge -- picking or not picking? |
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Another awesome innovation of the new millennium/century: Uni's book club, RIF RAF. The 1999-2000 RIF RAFers are shown here with some of their favorite books. Ms. Harris and graduate assistant Matt "Token Y Chromosome" Murrey kept oh-so-rowdy RIF RAF meetings in line. If you want to know what RIF RAF stands for, too bad. You'll have to come to a meeting to find out. RIF RAF meets on Thursdays at lunch in the library. |
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