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This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

by Marilyn Johnson

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Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us--neither the experts nor the hopelessly baffled--can get along without human help. And not just any help--we need librarians, who won't charge us by the question or roll their eyes, no matter what we ask. Who are they? What do they know? And how quickly can they save us from being buried by the digital age? This book is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the clichés and stereotyping of librarians. Here are bloggers, radicals and visionaries who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need.--From publisher description.… (more)
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nice book
  muhammadali_lis | Sep 14, 2022 |
Well, who else would read this book except a librarian wannabe? I loved it. I had no idea about what the "new" librarians or information specialists or organizers of the world or whatever you want to call these wonderful people, were doing with the huge shift in everything technological. I am so jealous of librarians! They are soooooo cool! ( )
  BarbF410 | May 22, 2022 |
Eclectic little book celebrating today's librarians. ( )
  auldhouse | Sep 30, 2021 |
This book is super-informative, funny, witty, enlightening, and easy-to-read. It destroys the stereotypes of librarians, and describes how linked to the future librarians (or information specialists) really are. This book should be read by every library patron, library grad student, politician, and tax payer so they can understand what librarian and library workers do and have to put up with on a daily basis. A librarians' job is not all quiet and reading books. Unfortunately, this book can be a bit tedious if you are a librarian or work in the library profession. The scenarios, stories, and anecdotes can be so familiar as to be boring. However, it is still an excellent book. Buy it, read it, pass it on. Librarians rule! ( )
  RakishaBPL | Sep 24, 2021 |
As a librarian I feel proud, inspired, and, I'll admit it, a bit lazy while reading this book about the cool librarians that are keeping my profession revelant. I enjoyed this book. ( )
  Colleen5096 | Oct 29, 2020 |
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Say the word "librarian," and most people conjure up a frumpy, bespectacled woman shushing people — Marion the Librarian. The image is outdated, Marilyn Johnson argues in her impassioned celebration of librarians and archivists, cleverly titled This Book Is Overdue.
 
Ms. Johnson's enthusiasm for libraries and the people who work in them is refreshingly evident throughout the book. In a charming if meandering style, she samples from her conversations with traditional librarians and with "cybrarians," a catch-all term for a generation of librarians intent on finding ways to integrate the old mission of the library with the new possibilities of technology.
 

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Show me a computer expert who gives a damn, and I'll show you a librarian.

--Patricia Wilson Berger, former president, ALA
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Down the street from the library in Deadwood, South Dakota, the peace is shattered several times a day by the noise of gunfire--just noise.
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Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us--neither the experts nor the hopelessly baffled--can get along without human help. And not just any help--we need librarians, who won't charge us by the question or roll their eyes, no matter what we ask. Who are they? What do they know? And how quickly can they save us from being buried by the digital age? This book is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the clichés and stereotyping of librarians. Here are bloggers, radicals and visionaries who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need.--From publisher description.

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