book lovers
Wah I made the mistake of looking at Etsy. Whenever I go to Etsy, I find something my life cannot go one without. And this was no exception.
Book shadows made of vinyl records
Librarian necklace
PASTIES MADE OF BOOKS!
The market for crafty things that are librarian themed is boundless, but recently I saw this theme:
This made me sad. So not useful to me, an actual librarian. I am sort of weirded out by the whole “my job as hip thing to pretend you are” thing. I mean, let’s face it, there’s a very easy path to librarianship. It just doesn’t seem glitz and glam enough to make people buy pins about it, but I guess I am glad people like us!
4 Comments so far
1. Heidi wrote on November 9th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Re. that last one… the Seattle PL has kid-sized t-shirts with that logo on them in the gift shop. OK maybe you are a FAN of librarians so you dress your kid like that, but I can’t see as an actual librarian wanting to do that to my own kid. While the profession mostly works for me (ahem no benefits/crappy pay/totally short-staffed work environment) I wouldn’t try to impose it on my own offspring.
2. jennybento wrote on November 9th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
actually I think that’s it–I can’t imagine being a fan of a field. I mean, if you’re such a fan just become that profession! How can you be a fan of a job?
3. Grace wrote on November 9th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Maybe it’s not so much people being a fan of librarians as using librarian as kind of shorthand for “my kid is going to be geek chic.”
Anyway, Etsy is dangerous. What book are the book pasties made of? Seems a key question.
4. jenny wrote on November 9th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
in the same way firemen are patriot chic.
i wondered as well….