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This Book Is Overdue! : How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All by Marilyn Johnson; OverDrive, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Buried in info' Cross-eyed over technology' From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, breathed merry life into the obituary-writing profession. This Book Is Overdue! is a romp through the ranks of information professionals and a revelation for readers burned out on the clichEs and stereotyping of librarians. Blunt and obscenely funny bloggers spill their stories in these pages, as do a tattooed, hard-partying children's librarian; a fresh-scrubbed Catholic couple who teach missionaries to use computers; a blue-haired radical who uses her smartphone to help guide street protestors; a plethora of voluptuous avatars and cybrarians; the quiet, law-abiding librarians gagged by the FBI; and a boxing archivist. These are just a few of the visionaries Johnson captures here, pragmatic idealists who fuse the tools of the digital age with their love for the written word and the endurin
Who reads This Book Is Overdue! : How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marilyn Johnson; OverDrive, Inc
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-Books
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061431609
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Humor, Social Science
- Rating
- 3.44 / 5 (81 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14