Can't say that I agree with that, Karen.
I'd recommend that everyone concerned about this story write to Forbes and
Mattel. Listservs are a good place to inform us about what is going on, but
we need to interact with the source of the story to correct misinformation
rather than just venting to each other. I'm sure to them librarians are an
easy target and this was just written for an easy laugh. They don't realize
how seriously we take our image. Educate them.
On another listserv I'm on, I heard about a very homophobic internet article
about gays on television. I reported this to GLAAD and they contacted and
educated the author, who apologized and will now think twice before writing
such drivel.
Paula Lichtenberg, Librarian
Keker & Van Nest LLP, San Francisco
-----Original Message-----
From: Karen Silber [mailto:KSilber@bna.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 11:03 AM
To: Marcie Bierlein
Cc: law-lib@ucdavis.edu; owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Barbie Follow-Up
As the saying goes, "bad publicity is better than no publicity at all."
Karen Silber
BNA Library
Marcie Bierlein
<Marcie.Bierlein@law.w To: Stephanie
Pierson <SPIERSON@llgm.com>
idener.edu> cc:
law-lib@ucdavis.edu, (bcc: Karen Silber/BNA Inc)
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01/29/03 01:07 PM
Well, guess what! My daughter is an architect and word went out over their
message boards to vote for "architect!" Too bad Forbes only used one
example!
Marcie Bierlein
Reference/State Documents Librarian
Legal Information Center
Widener University School of Law
Wilmington, DE 19803
302-477-2044
Stephanie Pierson wrote:
> The following appears in the Feb. 3rd issue of Forbes:
>
> Some People Just Have Too Much Time
> On its kids-oriented Barbie Web site, Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people )
posted a tongue-in-cheek poll about careers for the 43-year-old,
1-billion-copy teenager doll. Adults took this seriously. Librarians, for
example, put messages on Internet trade message boards urging colleagues to
vote for their profession over, say, architect or cop. --W.P.B.
>
> Is it just me or is anyone else insulted by the implication that
librarians "just have too much time"?
>
> Food for thought...
>
> Stephanie
>
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> Regional Manager, Legal Information Resources
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