For librarians AND Natalie Portman lovers

[LostinVA]

http://community.livejournal.com/sexylibrarians/


And scroll down to the first big picture. OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG -- I want a poster of this.

[Radical Activist]

1. thank you

made my day

[LostinVA]

4. You're welcome -- my ex sent it to me...

It will be my new wallpaper on my home computer.....

[kay1864]

2. OH.

MY.
(she needs little wire-rimmed glasses though :bounce:)

Thanks!

[Radical Activist]

3. Oh yeah. Lisa Loeb glasses.

Then it would be a perfect pic.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

14. I have such a thing for girls in glasses...

the "nerdier" the glasses, the better. I need to buy the shirt from Dyke Tees that says "Nerdy Girls Are Hot."

[JohnKleeb]

5. Whoa

She's hot as ever.

[Goblinmonger]

6. This English teacher/Star Wars geek

thanks you.

[LostinVA]

8. This librarian/lesbian says you're welcome

[giant_robot]

7. Yummy.

[LostinVA]

9. kick for the evening crowd

[nemo137]

10. Natalie Portman on a pile of books.

mmmm... Shiny.

[Southsideirish]

11. My ex-library director hates books. I'm afraid he's the "wave of the

future" in that computers are all he cared about. I recently read an article that said librarians will soon become computer techs. Book circulation is way down in academic libraries.

[huskerlaw]

12. Yeah, it is, but...

there's already somewhat of a backlash. People are realizing that if you go all electronic, you lose control of future access. Sure, there are different schools of thought, but even the ones who lean towards electronic are getting a bit nervous about access.

As for circulation, yeah, of course book use is down. As long as it's available to the students online, where the students can access it while sitting on their bed in their PJ's, that's what they're going to use.

[nemo137]

13. Only, a lot of stuff isn't online.

And you can't get the depth you need (for the most part) from online articles. You really do need to go to the damn library with a backpack and get yourself some damn books.

The laziness of my fellow students revolts me sometimes.

[huskerlaw]

15. Yes, exactly

which is why most directors don't advocate going electronic.

But I agree, the students are quite lazy. They'll even refuse to use the books when their assignment specifically tells them to start with the books, not the databases.

[LostinVA]

18. Don't even get me started on your last sentence... omg

[LostinVA]

17. Agree about the backlash, especially in journals

The thing a few years ago was getting rid of as many print subscriptions as possible... because that was the "thing." Some of us were very leery about just doing this gangbusters, because of the access problem you brought up. We were Pooh-pooed. Guess what? Companies come and companies go and merge, and all kinds of other stuff happenes... and most of those journals are back to print and e-journal...

I made the circulation point in another thread. With so much great stuff online, the kids don't need as many books for research -- but the "browsing" books, and non-research titles, are circulating as much as ever. And, ILL circ is way up for the past few years.

[LostinVA]

16. That will never, ever happen

Traditional libraries will eb underutilized and underpaid as always, as we always need to be more and more tech minded (and metadata savvy)... but this will take generations. Seriously. Circulation is down because of research available on the internet, but the "browsing books" do as well as ever... and, an interesting example: the digital scans of public books were being put into straight xml text... until patrons complained: they wanted the scans to look like the actual book pages.

Your ex library director must have been a tech-sided person. Ours is a "traditional" librarian who is also up on all the newest stuff...

But, regardless, Natalie Portman is HOT in that photo!!!