Bob Cox writes:
The stern lady in the dowdy dress with fingers to her lips, shushing her patrons, no longer fits the image of today’s librarian, according to Lillian Woon Gassie, senior systems librarian at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey.
“I tend to be a nontraditional librarian,” Gassie said. “I call myself a geek.”
Gassie, 45, has been named national federal librarian of the year for 2003 by the Federal Library information Center Committee in recognition of “innovative leadership and professionalism in the promotion and development of library and information services” at the postgraduate school.”. Read the full story.
Neat program, neat librarian
This is the first I’ve ever heard about the national federal librarian of the year award. This librarian seems super cool. Maybe we should start a set of librarian trading cards, or perhaps a series of action figures, with all our innovative and award-winning librarians!