wrapped up in books

[tears_of_nienna]

Ahaha, I can't get this paper organized because I have too fucking much to say about it. The topic? Women and Library Science. Thanks, prof, that's not a crazy-broad subject or anything. Hee, crazy broad, that's me! It's meant to be 750 to 1000 words. I'm at 626 right now and I don't even feel like I've gotten properly started.

I find it weird that

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[active_apathy]

I am happy that my education in librarianism did not include this; the closest I had to a 'foundations' course involved detailed case studies and comparisons of information agencies as a final paper. One of the main advantages of this approach is that it's a paper that's ACTUALLY ABOUT LIBRARIANSHIP.

[tears_of_nienna]

*gasp* YOU SPEAK TREASON! A paper that is actually about librarianship and practical aspects that might help us in our careers? Never!

[active_apathy]

Alas; my other papers were on things like library disaster management strategies, on acquisitions and collection development procedures, on developments in and implications of advances in search and indexing technologies, on the potential use and impacts of shiny new library technologies with reference to their deployment in real-world information agencies, and other such useful things.

And now, now I despair that having learned how to preserve and recover collection materials from the walls falling down and the rain falling sideways, I neither know how to be properly deferent and nurturing, nor how best to write a "no boys allowed" sign.

[tears_of_nienna]

But we cannot forbid gentlemen within our occupation! That would not show the proper deference at all. Besides, in libraries as in all things, men are meant to be on top of women.

In a purely missionary administrative position, of course.

[active_apathy]

But they come with their impersonal networks and electronic resources and imperil the womanly ways of tome-laden shelves and circulation stationery. Men will bring their internets into our bookish havens, and all will surely be laid to ruin. Fie, I say, to this heteronormative society and its insistence that we cannot have women atop other women.

[tears_of_nienna]

NOOOO THEY BE TAKIN MAH STASHUNEREE!

Women atop other women! Men atop other men! Sexy anarchy is loosed upon the world!

[active_apathy]

Huzzah! Onward, to bed and to glorious revolution!