Kathy DeGrego’s T-shirt lets you know right away she isn’t an old-school librarian. “Shhh,” it says, “is a four-letter word.”
That spirit of bookish defiance has guided the makeover of the suburban Denver library system where DeGrego works. Reference desks and study carrels have been replaced by rooms where kids can play Guitar Hero. Overdue book fines have been eliminated, and the arcane Dewey Decimal System has been scrapped in favor of bookstore-like sections organized by topic.
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There’s nothing “defiant”
There’s nothing “defiant” about rigorously enforcing the dominant culture’s attitudes regarding noise, aggression, and abuse of public space by the inconsiderate and the extroverted.
She is not a librarian.