How Many Librarian's Does It Take?

September 12, 2003 8:06 AM

How 'bout a little bookish fun. We're cool enough to have our own Action Figure, but did you know librarians star in at least 2 cartoons, Library Girl, the adventures of a library girl and her cat, and the fantastically funny "Unshelved".
We've been Featured in the funny pages numerous times, and have been the subject of a couple funny flash cartoons as well, The Library, a catchy toon [Warning: May stick in your head for hours], and a "Cops" parody "Overdue", featuring the library cops.
We're a Funny Bunch, not just a bunch of ol' ladies.
posted by Blake (21 comments total)

We librarians looooooooooooove our jobs...no, really! And here to prove it is another funny librarian - the Ref Grunt (that's reference desk grunt to you non-librarians), who blogs wise about the many things s/he is obliged to say and do during his/her daily shift. (seen on our own Jessamyn's site)
posted by Lynsey at 10:45 AM on September 12, 2003

three librarians in a row. woo. metafiltering librarians unite.
posted by ArcAm at 10:58 AM on September 12, 2003

Nobody ever does anything about budget analysts.

Where's my action figure?
posted by Ufez Jones at 10:59 AM on September 12, 2003

I like it when you take off your glasses and shake your hair out of a bun. That's totally hot.
posted by Samsonov14 at 11:03 AM on September 12, 2003

that action figure is bizarre. i think her arms are too long
still tho, i thought immediately, PULL MY FINGER, now with "wooshing fart action"

shh.
posted by Peter H at 11:10 AM on September 12, 2003

Let's not forget the Librarian Avengers.

--jeddings
posted by jeddings at 11:18 AM on September 12, 2003

I would think a librarian would know better than to make a plural possessive, though.

/pedant
posted by Ufez Jones at 11:19 AM on September 12, 2003

Mustn't forget UHF's Conan the Librarian...

"Don' you know da Dewey Decimal system?" SLASH!
posted by dakotadusk at 11:23 AM on September 12, 2003

three librarians in a row. woo. metafiltering librarians unite.

What if we're currently unhappily employed as a videogame designer but going to grad school to get a Library and Info Sci degree? Does that count?
posted by 40 Watt at 11:26 AM on September 12, 2003

What if we're currently unhappily employed as a videogame designer but going to grad school to get a Library and Info Sci degree? Does that count?

We'll take you, happily. Your current job sounds fun in theory though, but maybe it isn't. Being a librarian might not sound like fun in theory, but it is.
posted by ArcAm at 11:32 AM on September 12, 2003

"I would think a librarian would know better than to make a plural possessive, though."
Damn it, why does everyone just assume we're smart?? Really, I get that all time, I just don't get it. I ain;t not smart most of da time.

"going to grad school to get a Library and Info Sci degree?"
Yeah, close enough I'd say, but I agree with ArcAm, damn your job sounds soooo much more fun that this librarian crap sometimes.
posted by Blake at 12:16 PM on September 12, 2003

The Library Asssociation of Alberta has produced a fundraising calendar called "Hot Picks" which features librarians and their varied interests - belly dancing, motorbiking, sculpting, mountain climbing, etc. From the web site: "Sixteen photos of vibrant, dynamic, creative, smart, adventurous, sexy librarians!"

(I didn't need convincing - I've always thought that librarians are the coolest, sexiest, smartest, people you could ever hope to know.)
posted by Jaybo at 12:24 PM on September 12, 2003

I work in I.T. at a library. Does that count? I do get a lot of reference questions...

...and I can answer maybe two out of five of them. Much respect to the "real" librarians.
posted by britain at 12:37 PM on September 12, 2003

Yeah, close enough I'd say, but I agree with ArcAm, damn your job sounds soooo much more fun that this librarian crap sometimes.

Yeah, that's what I thought at first, too....but it's turned out to be the dreariest job I've ever had. In terms of what I'm getting out of it, the payoff definitely isn't worth what I'm putting into it. There's little intellectual stimulation, and it's a suprisingly uncreative and unmotivating work enviornment.

In any case, I'm lookin' to do a career 180...probably do children's librarianship after I get my degree. I figure, what better way to offset the damage done by years of working for my current employer?
posted by 40 Watt at 12:59 PM on September 12, 2003

Lowering the tone of the discussion ... I just remembered librarian Dan Lester's learned research into The Image of Librarians in Pornography.
posted by raygirvan at 3:13 PM on September 12, 2003

I like it when you take off your glasses and shake your hair out of a bun. That's totally hot.

Thanks! I get that a lot, to be honest.. but most of the time, it's from the girls. I'm heterosexual, so I'll have to pass on any kind of romantic notion you might have been thinking of...
posted by bradth27 at 3:41 PM on September 12, 2003

We're cool enough to have our own Action Figure

Two action figures. Don't forget Rupert Giles.
posted by kayjay at 4:49 PM on September 12, 2003

Worked in the University Library for two years to help pay for my college edjukayshun. On my top ten list of life regrets is NOT going for a Library Sciences degree (but then, how many people pick the wrong major when they're college-age? Lots.)
posted by wendell at 12:15 AM on September 13, 2003

Wendell, I'm not sure when you went to university, but most librarians hold Masters degrees in Library/Library and Information Studies. Regardless of what your undergraduate degree was (mine was in Journalism with a concentration in broadcast production), you too can become a librarian.
posted by likorish at 8:49 PM on September 13, 2003

I'll second that...we've got everyone from doctors to lawyers to construction workers to historians to, ahem, video game designers in my current LIS cohort.
posted by 40 Watt at 2:08 PM on September 14, 2003

three librarians in a row. woo. metafiltering librarians unite.

What if we're currently unhappily employed as a videogame designer but going to grad school to get a Library and Info Sci degree? Does that count?

I'm studying part-time, working part-time, planning to apply to library sciences programmes for next autumn. Do I count, too?

Sorry I'm late... I was caught up in the currency museum thread.
posted by philfromhavelock at 8:36 PM on September 14, 2003