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January 31, 2013 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Salon and the Shushing Librarian

Things I Never Learned in Library School: To Shush or Not To Shush? Just the other day I mentioned that I thought, perhaps, maybe, there should be a little more shushing in the library.  I know – it seems such a treasonous thought and sets back the fight against stereotypes 100s of years.   See: […]

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