Quiz Answers: Librarian -- fact, fiction or just plain freak

Answers:

1. b – Elizabeth. No, it’s true. She wasn’t Tony Hawk, but back then it was hockey or skateboarding. Which would you choose?

2. b – Tom Arendall-Salvetti. He’s a reference and instruction librarian at the Univ. of Baltimore, and a friend of Elizabeth's from her early days of library work. The others are examples of fabulous librarians in film, fiction and pop culture.

• Ruth Harrison, Reference Librarian – recurring character on A Prairie Home Companion who excels at biblio-kwan-do.
• Bunny Watson – Katherine Hepburn as glamour girl librarian in the film “Desk Set”.
• Rupert Giles – librarian and mentor to Buffy The Vampire Slayer, television series.
• Marcus – librarian character in the game Siege of Avalon.

3. c – Chadwick. As if you couldn’t guess that one.

4. a – True. No really – librarians were instructed on how to write as uniformly as possible. The pre-computer era was truly the Dark Ages.

5. c – Kelley. She says it was only once…

6. c – Belly dancing. It’s not stereotypical, but there is a growing community of belly dancing information professionals out there, shifting books and shaking hips. Gone are the days of glasses on a chain and sensible shoes. Well, depends on your definition of “sensible”…

Check out http://valinor.ca/waycool.html to find out more about librarians bucking the stereotypes.