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librarians in the news

I have determined that there are five types of general news articles about librarians:

  1. Librarians are hip. No, really! That stereotype thing is so last week.
  2. Librarians are awesome! Look at all the cool stuff they do. No one appreciates them as much as they should.
  3. Gasp! A librarian did [insert act of bravery or indecency]!
  4. OH NOES! There aren’t enough librarians!
  5. OH NOES! There aren’t enough librarian jobs!
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  • http://freerangelibrarian.com kgs

    It’s my impression that #4 and #5 are industry-specific (confined to LibraryLand). Do you have examples where this isn’t the case?

  • http://eclecticlibrarian.net/ Anna

    4 – http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1189319219298470.xml&coll=1

    5 – This may be more of an industry-specific thing. I couldn’t find an example this morning (i.e. 30 seconds of Google News searching).