I should be cleaning the house...

If you Google library, up comes information about the Pima County Library System – all of the branches and their addresses, a map, etc. – followed by the homepages for public libraries in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, and Columbus; Wikipedia’s entry for library and the Internet Public Library.

Type librarians into Google and the listings are a little more diverse. Wikipedia’s entry is first, then

·      Librarians, Employment followed by

·      How to Become a Librarian,

·      Librarians (the musical group – four guys whose work is described as “bouncy psychedelica”),

·      Images for Librarians, and

·      Fighting the Stereotype: Unusual Librarians. 

Click on this last entry and you go the Warrior Librarian Weekly: rejecting the stereotypical librarian image.  This is a combination humor, advice, advocacy, portal site authored by Amanda Credaro, a high school teacher/librarian in Australia.

My New Year’s Resolutions are nothing like the Seven Habits of Highly Successful Librarians but, in light of this new information, I should probably revisit them.

Ms. Credaro posted test answers by middle school students who had obviously taken a course about the library. I have completed three classes at the University of Arizona as part of the Information Resources and Library Science program and guess I am well on my way to becoming a librarian because I found their responses very funny.  A sampling:

·      Boolean operators are telephone sellers in other countries.

·      The purpose of OPACs is to say how much to sell crude oil for.

·      The Dewey System measures how cold it got overnight by measuring how much wetness is on the grass in the morning.

·      You can find words with similar meaning in Rogers Brontosaurus.

·      Reference books cannot be checked out because they are too big and heavy.

·      Copyright is using the photocopier the right way.

·      An abstract is a painting that doesn’t make any sense.

·      Standing on the shoulders of giants is important in research for getting the books off the top shelf.

My idea of a good time? Great jokes like these and browsing the Internet to see what grabs my attention next.