Profession Once Seen as Hopelessly Dowdy and Dorky Rising Quickly on the Cool-o’-Meter of Public Perception
Sid Vicious: Cool? Sure. Librarian cool? Meh-Not so much.
While I’d be the first to admit I aint no frickin’ Elvis, my chosen profession has been getting some favorable ink lately and I, for one, am perfectly happy to bask in the reflected rays of positive publicity since, as I’ve written before, the job I do has been getting dissed for years.
Here’s the Grand Rapids Press talking about how cool librarians are. Some of them, it reports, even have [gasp] tattoos! And here’s an article that was published last summer exposing the astounding coolness of librarians; it’s from none other than the New York Times Fashion & Style Section.
That’s right: fashion, style and librarians–all in the same sentence.
Both articles cite librarians as being “hip, tech-savvy and cool,” which is great, if you like that sort of thing. In the spirit of perpetually striving for a higher purpose, though, I’d like to propose that we librarians shoot for an even loftier mark. I think we should continue to sharpen our professional image until we can earn the ultimate tripartite accolade: the right to be labelled “Fab, Beat and Gear.”
So, where are we going, lads?
“To the Toppermost of the Poppermost!!!”
Shhhhhhh! This is a library, people.
1 Comment
January 9, 2008 at 12:52 am
snork!
It’s about time the rest of the world figured it out.
WTG, Ringo!