LISNews: Librarian News

Daniel Tsang, winner of the 2000 Eubanks Award, interviewed Sanford Berman on his KUCI (San Diego) radio show recently. He calls Mr. Berman \"librarian extraordinaire, and advocate of democratizing and making libraries more socially responsible.\" \"Hear about \'bibliocide\' and \'internal censorship\'. Are libraries turning into corporate entities with no soul?\"

Read the press release for the show and listen to it in Real Audio format.

Someone suggested yet another article on the \"Librarian Image\" thing. In a profession obsessed with its image, it wasn\'t like we needed another site that talks about the image of the librarian, so I was less than interested, but This one was really interesting. This Article at Imapct does a great job looking at all the different librarian sites around the net. It covers all the classics, belly dancing, tatoos, worship a librarian, Librarian.net, etc.. but goes in depth on the images, and other sites. A very interesting read. Includes 45 references!

\"So where should the image-obsessed, web-surfing library professional begin? A quick search on Alta Vista for
\'librarian*\' will uncover over a million hits . It is the intention of this article to give some pointers to interesting
sites and useful gateways, and to explore what types of \'image sources\' and \'image representations\' are
available in cyberspace.\" -- Read More

The Boston Globe has this article on the continuing trend of disappearing librarians.\"Colleges and universities are turning out as many professional librarians as ever - 4,577 in 1998 - but many quickly vanish, leaving libraries understaffed or operated by employees with less training.\" -- Read More

Some librarians have interesting other careers-such as being a minister. Reverend Ingrid Kalchthaler gets business for her church and her library. I am evidence of this as she \"recruited\" me at the library to perform my wedding ceremony on May 6th. -- Read More