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	<description>The preceptions people have about libraries and librarians.</description>
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		<title>Librarians as sex objects</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a wealth of images portraying librarians (at least female librarians) as inherently sexually attractive. This is usually not the first characteristic the public thinks of when conjuring up a mental picture of a librarian. The common stereotype is an older, stern, matronly woman with a bun and glasses who does nothing but work [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=18&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A great way to say &#8220;BE QUIET&#8221;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a look at the humourous and effective noise flyer made by Rochelle Hartman (found via LibrarianInBlack.net. The issue of noise in libraries has been around since the librarian at Alexandria told Archimedes to keep his water-pumping to a dull roar. LOL Recently however, there has been a realization that such strict admonitions to remain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=6&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Library Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to an &#8220;Inside Higher Ed&#8221; interview with Loriene Roy, president of ALA, and read the article and comments entitled similarly to my entry here also from &#8220;Inside Higher Ed&#8221;. Loriene Roy in her interview linked to above talks about what library school is, the trend towards &#8220;i-schools&#8221; (i.e. using the term &#8220;information&#8221; instead or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=15&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are we cool yet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another &#8220;positive image&#8221; article in the Gothamist (and the New York Sun, Florida&#8217;s The Ledger, and the New York Times) for librarians. This one speaks of a group of librarians from Brooklyn with tattoos and style and passion and, heaven forbid, lives. However, just as in my previous entry about articles like this, this article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=14&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some habits are hard to keep.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 01:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about the &#8220;Four Habits of Highly Effective Librarians&#8221;:  Openness, Responsiveness, Collaboration, and Communication.  Actually, now you don&#8217;t have to.  We all know what those four words mean, and we can all probably figure out how they can be applied to librarianship, as well as why they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=13&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Careers and crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2007 22:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LibraryJournal.com had a short article entitled &#8220;In Toyko, Librarian Retirements Don&#8217;t Bring Replacements&#8221; on 28 Feb 2007 referring to an article in The Japan Times Online entitled &#8220;Tokyo librarians to vanish by attrition&#8221; on 21 Feb 2007. They speak of major budget cuts preventing the hiring of replacements for the large wave of retiring professional [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=12&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting our children and our knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 03:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be an increased clash between our concern for the welfare of our children and ready and reasonable access to information for the public.  (Here&#8217;s another of the recent efforts in the US to enforce filters on public Internet access.  Thank you Shifted Librarian.)  On the surface you&#8217;d think that there is no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=11&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our image is changing and not changing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 02:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this increasingly information-dependent world we live in, occasionally the world&#8217;s oldest information specialists get some credit. In this short article by Marty Nemko on the Kiplinger.com web site, being a librarian is listed as being one of the 7 great careers for 2007.: Librarian. Forget about the image of librarian as mousy bookworm. Today&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=10&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Origin of &#8220;Buns &amp; Shushings&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first on-topic entry of this new blog, &#8220;Buns &#38; Shushings&#8221;. (I&#8217;m going to leave the original &#8220;Hello World&#8221; entry to record the precise day I created this account/blog.) &#8220;Buns &#38; Shushings&#8221; will be a source of information and discussion concerning the perceptions the general public and society as a whole have about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bunsandshushings.wordpress.com&amp;blog=942183&amp;post=4&amp;subd=bunsandshushings&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello world!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 18:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Thomas</dc:creator>
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