TY - SER
AU - Nicole Pagowsky
AU - Miriam E. Rigby
CY - Chicago, IL
LA - English
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Contents:
- Foreword: Embracing the melancholy: How the author renounced Moloch and the conga line for sweet conversations on paper, to the air of "Second hand Rose" / James V. Carmichael Jr.
- Contextualizing ourselves: The identity politics of the librarian stereotype / Nicole Pagowsky and Miriam Rigby
- Academic librarian self-image in lore: How shared stories convey and define our sense of professional identity / Sarah K. Steiner and Julie Jones
- The stereotype stereotype: Our obsession with librarian representation / Gretchen Keer and Andrew Carlos
- That's women's work: Pink-collar professions, gender, and the librarian stereotype / Ayanna Gaines
- From sensuous to sexy: The librarian in post-censorship print pornography / David D. Squires
- Rainbow warriors: Stories of archivist activism and the queer record / Terry Baxter
- Unpacking identity: Racial, ethnic, and professional identity and academic librarians of color / Isabel Gonzalez-Smith, Juleah Swanson, and Azusa Tanaka
- Librarians and felines: A history of defying the "cat lady" stereotype / Dorothy Gambrell and Amanda Brennan
- Between barbarism and civilization: Librarians, tattoos, and social imaginaries / Erin Pappas
- At the corner of personality and competencies: Exploring professional personas for librarians / Lauren Pressley, Jenny Dale, and Lynda Kellam
- Student perceptions of academic librarians: The influence of pop culture and past experience / Melissa Langridge, Christine Riggi, and Allison Schultz
- The revolution will not be stereotyped: Changing perceptions through diversity / Annie Pho and Turner Masland
- Afterword: Toward a new inclusion in library work / K.R. Roberto.
PB - ACRL
PP - Chicago, IL
PY - 2014
SN - 9780838987049
EP - 294 pp.
TI - The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work
ER -