read or listen to this story for National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124316231&ft=1&f=10 32 Say the word "librarian," and most people conjure up a frumpy, bespectacled woman shushing people - Marion the Librarian. The image is outdated, Marilyn Johnson argues in her impassioned celebration of librarians and archivists, cleverly titled This Book Is Overdue. Johnson is a former magazine editor and the author of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries - another wittily titled appreciation of another underappreciated art. She is no stranger to research - and just how helpful a good librarian can be in navigating the overwhelming, "madly multiplying beast of exploding information." Holly Gordon Technical Support & Network Systems Specialist Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street, Suite 100 Austin, TX 78756 512-583-0704 ext.15 www.ctls.net <http://www.ctls.net/>
