{"id":12206,"date":"2019-06-28T21:53:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T01:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2019-08-11T12:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-11T16:34:50","slug":"a-shush-of-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2019\/06\/28\/a-shush-of-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"A Shush of Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/VintageLibrarianSocial2_Zandra_BW.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/VintageLibrarianSocial2_Zandra_BW.png 700w, https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/VintageLibrarianSocial2_Zandra_BW-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>B&amp;W render of <a href=\"https:\/\/static1.squarespace.com\/static\/51539ea6e4b0bc0edf64475d\/t\/5332eb16e4b037471aa41276\/1395845911430\/?format=1500w\">original image by Zandra<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/littleyellowcouch.com\/little-yelow-couch-blog\/2014\/3\/28\/vintage-librarian-social\">littleyellowcouch.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Daily Create<\/strong> for <em>Friday, June 28, 2019<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.ds106.us\/tdc2725\/\">#tdc2725 Renaming Clusters of Creatures<\/a>, asks us to <em>come up with a new, creative name for a group of a particular animal<\/em> (gaggle of geese, herd of cows, etc.)<br \/><br \/>After reading <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grumpwitch\/status\/1128686834563866629\">a really interesting thread<\/a> on Twitter this morning by <strong>SecretLibraryGorgon<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/grumpwitch\">@grumpwitch<\/a>), librarians were on my mind as I approached today&#8217;s challenge, and so I sought to come up with a creative name for that particular creature.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>At the risk of disappointing my teacher-librarian colleagues and friends, I settled on &#8220;Shush of Librarians,&#8221; as I liked the way it sounded and the stereotypical image that came to mind in conjunction with the usual connotation. Hopefully you will forgive me and enjoy the post <a href=\"https:\/\/littleyellowcouch.com\/little-yelow-couch-blog\/2014\/3\/28\/vintage-librarian-social\">&#8220;Vintage Librarian Social&#8221;<\/a> and additional images by <strong>Zandra<\/strong> from her blog <a href=\"https:\/\/littleyellowcouch.com\">Little Yellow Couch<\/a>. \u00a0I found her image by searching for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rls=en&amp;q=librarian+images+vintage&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=univ&amp;client=safari&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi43eKDuY3jAhXTLc0KHWxtBFMQsAR6BAgJEAE&amp;biw=1543&amp;bih=947#imgdii=DxrhqIq2kxz2GM:&amp;imgrc=PrD54glltXZ6QM:\">librarian images vintage<\/a>,&#8221; \u00a0and thought her book group wouldn&#8217;t mind being representative of a &#8220;Shush.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the record, I started out by taking an alliterative approach, searching for &#8220;literary words starting with L.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>lament of librarians <\/em>(too negative)<\/li>\n<li><em>lexicon of librarians<\/em> (didn&#8217;t really make sense)<\/li>\n<li><em style=\"font-size: inherit;\">leaf of librarians<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> was a close third in my deliberations, but perhaps a\u00a0<\/span><em style=\"font-size: inherit;\">sheaf of librarians<\/em><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">\u00a0or a <em>ream of librarians<\/em> would make more sense? (Yikes!! &#8212; 500 librarians would be a force to be reckoned with!)\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Other options that came to mind, once I stepped away from trying to find an alliterative noun:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>page-turner of librarians<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>potboiler of librarians<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>advocacy of librarians<\/em> (another favourite!)<\/li>\n<li><em>suffragette of librarians<\/em> (although I like it, at this point I realized I was being led too far astray by stereotypes)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think my favourite before I settled on &#8220;Shush&#8221; was this one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>stack of librarians<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My first job away from home as a kid was at the public library &#8212; and I had every intention of pursuing a career as a librarian until I was unfortunately dissuaded by my high school guidance teacher. (I forgive him.) My school board then shifted from Teacher-Librarians to library technicians over twenty years ago, and so that was no longer an option here.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>&#8220;I always wanted to be a Librarian, leaping from stack to stack with my best book by my side &#8230;.&#8221; \u00a0 \u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FshU58nI0Ts\">hat tip to Michael Palin<\/a>)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a considerable hiatus from The Daily Create, I am glad to be back, and hope to undertake the challenge on a regular basis <a href=\"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/2019\/06\/28\/clearing-the-board\/\">now that I have a little more time on my hands &#8230;.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>-13\/100-<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Create for Friday, June 28, 2019 #tdc2725 Renaming Clusters of Creatures, asks us to come up with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"\"A Shush of Librarians\" - new post on de\u2022tri\u2022tus for today's The Daily Create #tdc2725 @ds106dc @nobleknits2 @MzMollyTL @banana29 @heatheryearwood ","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,49],"tags":[1175,1315,1320,1312,1078,1314,1318,1319,1316,1313,50,1317],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds106","category-thedailycreate","tag-ds106dc","tag-grumpwitch","tag-lilyellowcouch","tag-dailycrate","tag-ds106","tag-librarian","tag-little-yellow-couch","tag-littleyellowcouch-com","tag-secret-library-gorgon","tag-tdc2725","tag-the-daily-create","tag-zandra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/VintageLibrarianSocial2_Zandra_BW.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UvWF-3aS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12217,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aforgrave.ca\/detritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}