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The top picture does not reflect a librarian. It's not even a person and would be better in the section about librarians in popular culture (which I also think needs an update). I think the article would be better served by showing librarians doing actual librarianship. I'm looking into more pictures. There's quite a few nice ones of librarians "in action" on commons. I hope others weigh in, otherwise, I'll be bold and pick something out. :) Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 18:31, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
LibraryTea recently added two paragraphs to this article and I have objections to them.
The first paragraph was added in a new "COVID-19" section:
I object to this material because it implies that many or all "librarians and other library workers" were employed as contact tracers. The supporting reference doesn't support that claim; it only describes a couple of libraries.
The second paragraph was added in the "Popular culture" section:
The cited source is a blog post entirely insufficient to support the broad claims made in the paragraph. We need much stronger sourcing to support claims made in an encyclopedia article. ElKevbo ( talk) 02:29, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
I added the COVID-19 section again edited and with the additional sources. I'm still working on it but I didn't want to lose my progress. As to my reasoning for adding digital lending, it was more to highlight how librarians work has moved from physical librarianship to digital work for those of us who were still working inside the library. I added sources to show how one librarian has done this via digital programming. Digital lending is kind of just a part of the entire librarian gig these days. Thank you for your input and guidance. I hope my new edit is more up to par. -- LibraryTea ( talk) 20:56, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
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The main article's photo illustrating a librarian shows a librarian at a military base, "helping an airman". Librarians are not a topic one usually associates with the military, and while the military obviously have librarians, maybe this is not the best or most "general" photo to use? I vote we provide a better photo, of a librarian in a civilian context (I don't have such a photo or I would make the edit myself) The andf ( talk) 23:50, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
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The top picture does not reflect a librarian. It's not even a person and would be better in the section about librarians in popular culture (which I also think needs an update). I think the article would be better served by showing librarians doing actual librarianship. I'm looking into more pictures. There's quite a few nice ones of librarians "in action" on commons. I hope others weigh in, otherwise, I'll be bold and pick something out. :) Megalibrarygirl ( talk) 18:31, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
LibraryTea recently added two paragraphs to this article and I have objections to them.
The first paragraph was added in a new "COVID-19" section:
I object to this material because it implies that many or all "librarians and other library workers" were employed as contact tracers. The supporting reference doesn't support that claim; it only describes a couple of libraries.
The second paragraph was added in the "Popular culture" section:
The cited source is a blog post entirely insufficient to support the broad claims made in the paragraph. We need much stronger sourcing to support claims made in an encyclopedia article. ElKevbo ( talk) 02:29, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
I added the COVID-19 section again edited and with the additional sources. I'm still working on it but I didn't want to lose my progress. As to my reasoning for adding digital lending, it was more to highlight how librarians work has moved from physical librarianship to digital work for those of us who were still working inside the library. I added sources to show how one librarian has done this via digital programming. Digital lending is kind of just a part of the entire librarian gig these days. Thank you for your input and guidance. I hope my new edit is more up to par. -- LibraryTea ( talk) 20:56, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
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The main article's photo illustrating a librarian shows a librarian at a military base, "helping an airman". Librarians are not a topic one usually associates with the military, and while the military obviously have librarians, maybe this is not the best or most "general" photo to use? I vote we provide a better photo, of a librarian in a civilian context (I don't have such a photo or I would make the edit myself) The andf ( talk) 23:50, 22 February 2023 (UTC)