This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

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Buried in info? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, breathed merry life into the obituary-writing profession.

This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the clichÉs and stereotyping of librarians. Blunt and obscenely funny bloggers spill their stories in these pages, as do a tattooed, hard-partying children's librarian; a fresh-scrubbed Catholic couple who teach missionaries to use computers; a blue-haired radical who uses her smartphone to help guide street protestors; a plethora of voluptuous avatars and cybrarians; the quiet, law-abiding librarians gagged by the FBI; and a boxing archivist. These are just a few of the visionaries Johnson captures here, pragmatic idealists who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the enduring values of free speech, open access, and scout-badge-quality assistance to anyone in need.

Those who predicted the death of libraries forgot to consider that in the automated maze of contemporary life, none of us—neither the experts nor the hopelessly baffled—can get along without human help. And not just any help—we need librarians, who won't charge us by the question or roll their eyes, no matter what we ask. Who are they? What do they know? And how quickly can they save us from being buried by the digital age?

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I have a number of friends who are librarians, most of them work at universities. I have another friend who, after taking a temp job at the Library of Congress in D.C., went back to school to get his Masters and be a librarian. It's because of him that this book caught my eye. I'm not a librarian myself, but my day-to-day job involves a lot of research and the occasional trip to brick-and-mortar libraries for periodicals, access to Lexus Nexus or any number of things the internet or my own personal references can't provide.

If you didn't already have a deep abiding affection for librarians I think this book will engender one in you.

Well most of the book will anyway. As you get towards the end, things get a little dicey. I'm a total techno-nerd, but the chapter on librarians in Second Life might lose somebody who doesn't get "sandbox" games or MMO's. But then again, when I was a kid, there were people who didn't get "card catalogs" and the librarian was there to help them. The point is, the Librarians are there to get the content into the hands of people who want and/or need it (except where it violates somebody's privacy or Civil Rights of course). In this day an age there are many ways to do that and new challenges that come with them. This book celebrates the conventional and unconventional aspects of what could become, an might already be in some places, an endangered but important profession.

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