Librarians Get Their Cards

Amy Pelman, an LIS student graduating this spring from UCLA Department of Information Studies, thought that librarians merited trading cards featuring a photo and quick Q&A. She started a blog and announced it on the YALSA-BK electronic mailing list and at school, hoping it would grow. It did. Now she has a steady stream of requests for cards, which she creates and posts about once a week “so that each person gets to be 'on top’ for a time.” Steven N. Cohen, author of the Library Stuff blog, took notice, and started a separate pool on Flickr, where the cards are more plentiful but lack as many details.

“My hope was (and is) to bring librarians into the spotlight a little more outside of the profession” and to change the stereotypes, Pelman told LJ.