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Friday, 5th March 2010

NPR Reviews "This Book is Overdue"

It's NPR.org this time with a review of Marilyn Johnson's book, This Book Is Overdue. We don't think we've ever seen a book about librarians and libraries get this kind of mainstream press attention.

Heller McAlplin Writes on NPR.org:

If librarians are finders, archivists are keepers. Johnson addresses questions of what's worth saving — she seems to feel that everything is — and, as crucial, how to avoid "the looming nightmare of lost digital data." Do we really need librarians when we can just do a Google search ourselves? Oh yes, Johnson writes, citing multiple examples of librarians who "could wring things out of Google" that ordinary mortals can't begin to find. Her book offers a compelling case that even — or especially — in these tough times, librarians are "invaluable and indispensable" and "a terrible thing to waste." An overdue tribute, indeed.

This review also contains an excerpt from the book. It's about two librarians in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Source: NPR

Instead of repeating what we've already said about the book on ResourceShelf along with an interview with Marilyn Johnson, here are links to other posts. You'll find them here, here, and here (interview).


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