![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Blunt and obscenely funny bloggers spill their stories in this book, 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. 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. 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. ![]() ![]() Buried in information? 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. ![]()
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