Word: librarian
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...surprised to find that in referring to Queen Elizabeth's appearance, TIME would use such an outdated description as "dour librarian." The library profession has been combatting this unfortunate stereotypical image for years. There is no time or inclination to be dour in the modern library. Marla Schwartz Bethesda...
...library schedule will leave Lamont open from 8 a.m. on Sunday to 9:45 p.m. on Friday, said Larsen Librarian of Harvard College Nancy M. Cline. Lamont will not change its Saturday hours?...
...same could be said for the changes occurring in the Quadrangle. The Quad’s Hilles Library is transforming into the Quad Library—a single floor “library” without a librarian and with limited reserves—and student center, much to the chagrin of many current Quad residents who enjoy their personal study space. Likewise, the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC) has been closed for most of last semester as some of its basketball courts are transformed into admittedly much-needed dance space—a change necessitated after the Radcliffe Institute...
...school district too, the war created holes that had to be filled and that began to feel like a contagion. First, grade-school librarian Nolan Brown, a grandfather, Vietnam vet and National Guardsman, was called up for a desk job in Baghdad. Math teacher Kathy Mannon stepped into his post. Eleven days later, her husband Dennis, the librarian at the high school, was called up by the Air Force Reserve. Retired teacher Judy Gray, nearing 60, volunteered to fill in for him. Gray's own daughter Regina Jones had just seen her husband Albert leave for Iraq too. Jones...
Walking and physical motion have also been steadily drained from the workplace. Even a low-impact job like research librarian no longer involves much reaching, bending and pulling tomes from the stacks--not when you can let your fingers do the walking on a keyboard. To put modern society's lack of movement in context, researchers at the University of Tennessee's Department of Health and Exercise Science studied a group of Old Order Amish, a religious sect that shuns cars and other modern conveniences. Using pedometers, the researchers found that the average Amish man took 18,425 steps...