Reminds me of last year when the Observer was comparing Mick Jagger to a
particularly randy South American frog: Apparently the frog made Mick
Jagger look like he had the libido of a librarian!
What is it the newspapers have against us? Or should we have been flattered
by the comparison?
Rebecca
-----Original Message-----
From: Lesha Fossey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 February 2000 14:24
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Reporting the New BL Chief Executive
On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 14:32:28 -0000 Ian Winship <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> List members may well have seen that the new BL Chief Exec is to be Lynne
> Brindley from Leeds University
> (http://www.bl.uk/information/pr2000/brindley.html)
> I found it interesting that the Guardian's headline
> (http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,134697,00.html)
> is 'Woman to head British Library', not 'Librarian to head British
Library'
> whereas Yahoo (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/000209/23/9zyt4.html) (from the
> Scotsman) is more concerned with the media person the press expected to
get
> the job.
While The Times is more concerned with old stereotypes:
"They are dried-up spinsters in bulletproof tweeds. The only dates they have
are
embossed on their rubber stamps. They have nothing to excite them except the
occasional stiff fine. And the nearest they get to romances is lending the
latest Mills and Boon to similar saddoes. Yes, lady librarians have a dismal
reputation"
(http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/Times/frontpage.html?999)
Lesha
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