Making Our Voices Heard: a workshop on media and communications in libraries delivered by Ian Anstice of Public Libraries News and Simon Barron of Voices for the Library at the CILIP in Wales Conference on 18th May 2012.
3. “Yet in an interesting twist to the classic image of
librarians, recent depictions show librarians as zealous
and even violent protestors of good against evil.
Batgirl, a librarian by profession, is the classic comic
book heroine battling evil and fighting crime with
information power. The television show Buffy the
Vampire Slayer also depicts a librarian fighting
injustice and standing on the side of right.
The controversy over the U.S. PATRIOT Act, resulting
in librarians being dubbed “hysterical Ruby Ridge-type
radicals,” has added to this image as defenders of the
public good.”
- From Sacred Stacks by
Nancy Kalikow Maxwell.
Photos from Flickr courtesy
of Richard Hawkins (left)
and Tom Roper (right).