(I found this as a static Web page all the way back in graduate school. It's still awesome.)
Ok, sure. We've all got our little preconceived notions about what librarians are and what they do. Many people think of them as diminutive civil servants, scuttling about "Sssh-ing" people and stamping things. Well, think again buster.
Librarians
have degrees. They go to graduate school for Information Science
and become masters of data systems and human/computer interaction.
Librarians can catalog anything from an onion to a dog's ear. They
could catalog you. Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip
of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field & Stream magazines. They can find data for your term paper that you
never knew existed. They may even point you toward new and appropriate
subject headings.
People
become librarians because they know too much. Their knowledge extends
beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines.
Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos.
They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every
aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule. And
anyone who says otherwise is itchin' for a fight. Not my own work. I have seen credit for this quotation ascribed to the website www.librarianavengers.org
No comments:
Post a Comment