This Book is Overdue! : : how Librarians and Cybrarians can Save us all

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Call Number: 020.23 Jo
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	020.23 Jo	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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Glad I picked it up submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 11, 2014, 8:07pm Occasionally dry, but I was surprised by how relevant this book is to life. When I think of librarians I think of the quiet and "proper" women in elementary school and public libraries. But this book covers librarians in cyberspace, how libraries go from card catalogs to online catalogs, free speech and privacy rights, technology being used to document human rights issues in Third World countries, and much more.

I picked it up out of curiosity, and I'm really glad I did!

Entertaining, but uncritical submitted by audreyh on June 13, 2015, 1:57pm Johnson's upbeat and excited tone throughout the book is certainty infectious, but she fails to critically look at her subject matter. At it's best, This Book IS Overdue! is a collection of entertaining stories about librarians in the modern world. I had been hoping for a more nuanced and investigative role into the changing role of libraries and librarians in a world where the information environment is rapidly evolving. Johnson's method of relying the stories of various librarians, while entertaining, fails to guide the reader to bigger conclusions about the field.