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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.
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Marilyn Johnson |
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"I think you're more an archivist than a librarian," he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books. Archivists, on the other hand, are only peripherally interested in what other people like, and much prefer the rare to the useful. "They like everything," he said, "gum wrappers as much as books." He said this with a hint of disdain. "Librarians like throwing away garbage to make space, but archivists," he said, "they're too crazy to throw anything out." "You're right," I said. "I'm more of an archivist." "And I'm more of a librarian," he said. "Can we still be friends?"
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Avi Steinberg |
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Of course. Ask your librarian. Always the right answer.
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Marilyn Johnson |
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Librarians' values are as sound as Girl Scouts': truth, free speech, and universal literacy. And, like Scouts, they possess a quality that I think makes librarians invaluable and indispensable: they want to . They want to help . They want to be of service. And they're not trying to sell us anything.
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Marilyn Johnson |
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So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are. They're sorting it all out for us.
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Marilyn Johnson |
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"A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a "true reflection of our history," whether it's a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful arrangement of computer codes. The librarian is the organizer, the animating spirit behind it, and the navigator. Her job is to create order out of the confusion of the past, even as she enables us to blast into the future."
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