The Librarian Stereotype: Deconstructing Perceptions and Presentations of Information Work

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.