The New Yorker Interviews Marilyn Johnson

Link to "The Exchange: Marilyn Johnson on Librarians".

Excerpt: “Someday I will stop being surprised at all the things librarians read; they’ll read anything,” writes Marilyn Johnson in "This Book is Overdue" (Harper), her newly published exploration of libraries in the digital age. Anecdotally, it appears that many librarians are now reading Johnson’s engaging book. In it, she writes about the many ways technology is changing librarianship and the ways librarians are changing technology. She offers a survey of library blogs, attends library conventions, writes about anarchist librarians, and considers how venerable institutions such as the New York Public Library are adapting to the world of Google. Johnson kindly agreed to answer a few questions by e-mail from her home in New York.


Related posts:

This Book is Overdue. Chapter 1, "The Frontier". (2/10/2010)

This Book is Overdue. Chapter 2, "Information Sickness. (2/11/2010)