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Shushing the Librarian Stereotype

March 2, 2015 By Jamie Manser Leave a Comment

Shushing the Librarian Stereotype

(Published by Zocalo Magazine on March 2, 2015.) They are classic scenes in the 1984 film “Ghostbusters.” One is the opener with the grandmotherly librarian who gets the bejeezus scared out of her by the “free-roaming, vaporous, full torso apparition” haunting the New York Public Library. The other scene is with that ghost, who seems to also have been a librarian in her earthly life, shushing the Ghostbusters when they try to ask her questions while she is reading; she then terrorizes and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, Features Tagged With: Cindy Elliott, Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry, Nicole Pagowsky, Show & Tell @ Playground, UA Libraries, University of Arizona

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