"Libraries used to be quiet, musty temples to the god of reading, whose rites were listed in card catalogs overseen by the local book deity -- that is, the stereotypical bespectacled spinster with a pencil stuck in her bunned hair". Dass dem nicht mehr so sei, schrieb Julia Duin schon 1999 in ihrem Aufsatz "Libertine Librarians? The old stereotype of librarians is no longer accurate" in Insight on the News.