Flickr--surprising thoughts

I searched “librarians” and then “library cats.” Naturally there were thousands in both categories. Without going deeper than the first 4 pages of “librarians”, I found a number of interesting images. One was just the sign “Gorgeous Librarians”; a later image by a different photographer showed the top of the sign “Girls, Girls.” The sign is for a strip club in Las Vegas. Think what a library could do with that kind of marketing…..

Another image was “Nympho Librarian”, a book cover for a porn book about librarians. With it was a link to a list of “hard core porn” pbks from the several decades ago. Mostly just, the titles, but a few with links to selections from the books—with a warning that it really was explicit language. Fascinating. I’ve come across more porn, images and text, with learning 2.0 exercises than I have on the Internet since GUIs became available—just by browsing terms such as “librarians,.” Or looking through the links to web sites that received awards.

I think for this post I’ll just link a picture of my own favorite librarian, in full “lady” mode. Please note—the hat is NOT a Minnie Pearl ripoff, but one designed for a costume in local productions of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury, and worn by the “lady” in this picture.