I love having fun with our librarian stereotypes. My hair is too short for a bun, but I throw on a corduroy blazer almost every day and half my sweaters are argyle. It’s fun to tweak these stuffy stereotypes — I even hosted a librarian dress-up party to celebrate my MLIS graduation.What I’m sick of is the constant reactionary defensiveness folks seem to have about that stereotype. Can we cool it with the articles about how cool librarians are? […] My objection is to this constant need to affirm how cool we are — people who are cool don’t have to tell you that. —Daniel Ransom, otherwise known as The Pinakes, famed tumblr librarian/rugbyist, and next week’s Five Question Friday interviewee [image via]
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I love having fun with our librarian stereotypes. My hair is too short for a bun, but I throw on a corduroy blazer almost every day and half my sweaters are argyle. It’s fun to tweak these stuffy stereotypes — I even hosted a librarian dress-up party to celebrate my MLIS graduation.

What I’m sick of is the constant reactionary defensiveness folks seem to have about that stereotype. Can we cool it with the articles about how cool librarians are? […] My objection is to this constant need to affirm how cool we are — people who are cool don’t have to tell you that.

—Daniel Ransom, otherwise known as The Pinakes, famed tumblr librarian/rugbyist, and next week’s Five Question Friday interviewee

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