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It's hip to be a librarian
August 27, 2009 - 7:47am — Blake
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Yes, a librarian can now be anyone -- from your cute neighbor or cool classmate, to that sophisticated babe or handsome hunk. Or better yet, he can be a multi-talented computer expert who is into flip spin, poi, fire breathing and photography such as Johann Frederick Cabbab, a professor of Library and Information Science (LISIS), at the University of the Philippines in Diliman.
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Not a myth after all...
So there are jobs for librarians - just not in the USA ;-)
It's hip?
Whew! There for a split second I thought they were talking abut "hip" as in "hipster-hip" ... :P
the contrary
They mean like "broken hip."
Oh, great...
...now I have to be "hip" too.