Gender Week wrapped up recently Thursday with a lecture that shattered the stereotypical librarian image depicting a prudish, middle-aged, silence-loving white woman. Their historical look at the profession characterized modern librarians as a young and diverse crowd. The speaker, Loriene Roy, president of American Library Association (ALA) and director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at University of Texas at Austin, cited a recent New York Times article to illustrate the modern librarian. The article, titled “A Hipper Crowd of Shushers,” documented a group of young male and female librarians whose behavior and attitudes have helped disperse the stereotypes.
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