Hi all
Seeing Sarah's message reminded me of the library orientation webct we
launched last fall for our architecture students. It is full of cartoons.
Many of these are cartoons of librarians and most are drawn from
librarians we know and work with (including ourselves). One cartoon
librarian pushes a book truck across the screen, and so on.
The webct follows an imaginary architecture student, Freddy Feckless, from
being clueless about doing research through all the steps until he is
seen, at last, no long confused with mortar board in hand and a big smile
of self satisfaction on his face.
We have found that the humour (including the funny librarians) has helped
to make the online tutorial a big success with our students.
Access is available to all. If you want to have a laugh, follow the login
instruction on:
http://orange.mywebct.ubc.ca/public/library_123/index.html
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Diana E.M. Cooper 604-822-3943
Fine Arts Reference Librarian
Fine Arts Library
University of British Columbia
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Sarah McCleskey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think we should be secure enough in ourselves and our profession to have
> a sense of humor about the librarian's image. Lots of professions have
> stereotypes or stigmas attached to them. Think of all the jokes you've
> seen about lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc.
>
> Sarah
>
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> At 10:11 AM 1/16/02 -0500, Ray Anne Lockard wrote:
> >Yes, good idea. We are all so busy that letter writing would happen more
> >often
> >if we each ahd a "form letter" about this on a disk and we revise as
> >necessary as
> >the need arises. We should also inform each other each time we see negative
> >advertisements or depictions in film, etc. Sort of our own "Stigma
> >Alert." Ray
> >Anne Lockard
> >
> >"Roth, Emily" wrote:
> >
> > > Image is everything as we all know from looking at advertising
> > everywhere in
> > > our lives.
> > >
> > > Maybe the one thing we can all do is the following: Whenever we read an
> > > article that contains in any way, shape or form a disparaging remark about
> > > the image of librarians, we write a letter to the editor of the publication
> > > and/or the author of the article. I often think about the letter I would
> > > write but never do it. The time has come! AND if many of us write
> > regarding
> > > the same thing and the editor and author are inundated, so much the better.
> > >
> > > Emily Roth
> > > Associate Museum Librarian
> > > Uris Library and Teacher Resource Center
> > > The Metropolitan Museum of Art
> > >
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