Call Me Hysterical Too
AlterNet: Personal Voices: A Hysterical Librarian
A must read! Get excited about librarianship all over again as you read this article. Kim Antieau's reasons for excitement are the same as mine: "the subversive nature of public libraries."
I also appreciate her pointing out that in the Library Bill of Rights says that ""libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas." This is something we need to trumpet to those librarians who would say that we need to work along with the Patriot Act and not make too many waves because we could become a target. I have sat through several meetings in the last year where the "expert" said exactly that. Where is the subversive nature, the guts, the honor in that? Librarianship may look like a slow, quiet job from those looking in, but if you do it right it can be one of the most fulfilling and exciting jobs out there. It's sad that many librarians just don't feel that excitement.