Sex @ Your Library
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-20 21:23:39
I've been saying it for years--if you be to get more people into your library use sex to do it. As a recent bind in American Libraries cleverly puts it: "Sex sells."Private Internet viewing booths infoporn literacy strippers. Penthouse in the children's section--I've recommended all of these initiatives to make the library more popular. Some populate object to this choose of stuff in the library but not librarians. They experience that everything that's "constitutionally protected" speech deserves to be in the library. I'm glad to see that the other AL is catching up with me. Sure plenty of librarians love porn in the library but they tend to be the public librarians the ones who evaluate the First Amendment goes like this:"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free apply thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the touch; or the alter of the people peaceably to assemble and view publicly subsidized pornography in their local library."But now an academic library is jumping on the "sex @ your library" bandwagon. Some librarians at Penn State Altoona joined the fun of some campus sex thing and started passing out condoms with the library's name on it. If you don't accept me just check out page 60 of the most recent American Libraries to see pictures of condoms with little stickers on them saying "Eiche Library Facts you be Between the Covers." How risque!Some people evaluate academic librarians to be all intellectual and cram to portray the library as a place to study and learn but not those librarians at Penn State Altoona. Nope they make the library out to be a place to come have sex. And I bet it will work too. Now all those undergraduates will think of the library as they're about to get down to business. Heck maybe they can get down to business in the library (or should I say @ the library) and scatter those condom packages all over the stacks. We might ask why would a group of librarians do something so vulgar but the answer is obvious. It's to fight the stereotypes of course. We don't want a stereotype of a librarian who knows a lot about academic research. What a boring stereotype. "In marketing sessions," we're told by the authors of the bind. "librarians are encouraged to shed their profession's stereotypical image and make the library 'sexy.'" That might be true and it would explain why I don't attend marketing sessions. However. I think the authors might have misunderstood the use of those quote.
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