“You don’t look like the librarians I remember,” he told her.
“We’ve changed. There was a whole press release issued about it, but we didn’t get much media coverage.”
– Almost Summerby Susan Mallery
I really think it is fun to play with the whole librarian stereotype at times. Basically because, of all the librarians I know, very few actually conform to it. I can’t say I know any Irma Pince. I know more librarians who are like Batgirl, or like the punker in the illustration below.
![Image from "Should a Library Have a Dress Code?" (Anderson, 1992).](http://norwegianne.net/wp-content/uploads/wildwoman-300x204.jpg)
My boss did tell me, at one point, that when I’m doing presentations to the public, to either go for the bun, the glasses, the tea or the cardigan – not all four of them. I shouldn’t live up to the stereotype.
But I like tea, damn it.
Also, the power a “shush” has is kind of cool.