In honor of School Library Month, my co-worker and I decided to dress up as stereotypical librarians today. Enlightened people know that bespectacled, shushing old ladies wearing pearls are a thing of the past, and yet this image remains as the first one people think of when it comes to librarians.
Our school library is not often quiet, and most of the kids are very comfortable in it (sometimes, maybe a little too comfortable, but that's another discussion). But once in a while we have transfer students come in who are in awe that they are allowed to talk in the library.
Just to draw attention to this disparity, we donned pencil skirts, sensible shoes, pearls and glasses, and shushed all the students.
They were actually very confused; I think that's the first time they've ever been shushed by a librarian.
They were overdue for a good shushing.
Get it?
Overdue?
Libraries?
. . .yeah. . .
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