miss manners misses
I was interested to read the Miss Manners column where someone complains about a rude librarian. I usally enjoy Miss Manners but was a little bummed to see her playing out old tired stereotypes, but I did enjoy the comments (yes, one of which is mine) telling her that librarianship is more complicated than she thinks. [click "Read More" to get at the comments]
May 24th, 2010 at 11:27
Link to article since the “Read Article” link in the newspaper comments appears to use the referer, so it’s broken if you follow the link from here: Miss Manners: Nosy librarian prods for personal info.
May 24th, 2010 at 11:51
Oh thanks, I updated the link in the post.
May 24th, 2010 at 2:28
But actually, my reading is that Ms. Manners says that librarianship requires technological sophistication – she’s suggesting the response from the annoyed patron as a way to get back at her.
May 24th, 2010 at 2:36
Stereotypes aside, it’s weird to me that Ms. Manners is telling someone to be rude.
May 25th, 2010 at 6:35
[...] 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment Thanks to DP for pointing me to this post on librarian.net, which calls out Miss Manners for her poor handling of a question from a library [...]
May 25th, 2010 at 3:06
I may be picking nits but want to point out that library patrons refer to anyone who works in a library as a “librarian” and it may well be that the offending person was a volunteer or a clerk — classes of library help that rarely get ethics training.
May 29th, 2010 at 5:30
Robin, that is exactly what I was thinking. I would venture to guess that very few librarians actually work the circulation desk. Now, if it was a small library….
June 2nd, 2010 at 8:56
I think Ms. Manners is showing her age.