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. 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. These are just a few of the visionaries Johnson captures here, pragmatic idealists 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. Blunt and obscenely funny bloggers spill their stories in these pages, as do a tattooed, hard-partying children's librarian a fresh-scrubbed Catholic couple who teach missionaries to use computers a blue-haired radical who uses her smartphone to help guide street protestors a plethora of voluptuous avatars and cybrarians the quiet, law-abiding librarians gagged by the FBI and a boxing archivist.
This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the clichÉs and stereotyping of librarians. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, breathed merry life into the obituary-writing profession. Urn:oclc:829104009 Republisher_date 20120426211649 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120424035127 Scanner in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. OL14992768W Page_number_confidence 91.88 Pages 298 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0061962104 In This Book Is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, she offers a lively parade of people and places, all related to library science, or sort of related. Urn:lcp:thisbookisoverdu00john:epub:eadc5d6d-3be5-4c48-8562-eb7346b9be6c Extramarc University of Michigan Foldoutcount 0 Identifier thisbookisoverdu00john Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8md01x5n Isbn 9780061431609Ġ061431605 Lccn 2010007860 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL24552538M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:59:36 Boxid IA179301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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