Library column in Utne Reader

The UTNE Reader is introducing a new column, Shelf Life, written by the publication's librarian Danielle Maestretti.  I'll be keeping an eye on this one!  The first column included the following opening:

My job does not include shushing. In fact, quiet is the last adjective I'd apply to the Utne Reader library, and not only because the staff is anything but. Enforcing whispering tones does not fall within the domain of the Utne librarian, nor that of most other librarians nowadays. The weathered image of the librarian as a grandmotherly, finger-waving bookworm has been defunct for quite some time. Librarians are more likely to be protecting civil liberties, promoting literacy, and guarding people's access to information than pursing their lips.

found via Random Musings from the Desert