Last week, I got an email from the OZTL_NET list serve that really got me thinking.
Barbara Braxton wrote a lovely thought provoking piece about how the "chain starts with the librarian".
She explained how some of the biggest recent movie franchises got their start from a series of books and that these books would have been recommended to children by their teacher librarians. From there these books spiralled into such overwhelming popularity that thousands of people's livelihoods now depend upon the word of a teacher librarian. These people being "the actor to [the] theatre usher, not to mention all the side-shoots like those in the publishing and printing industries, the manufacturers of the commercial spin-offs; the employees in the theme parks or even the cleaner/nanny/driver the author, agent or bookshop owner might now employ."
It truly is an amazing thought that the word of a teacher librarian can be so powerful. Goes to show that we are not as redundant as many people seem to think we are becoming.
Currently Reading: Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire)
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