What exactly is a guybrarian anyway?

Adventures of a Guybrarian. What exactly is a “guybrarian” and what sort of adventures does one have?

The annoyed librarian defines a guybrarian this way. Another thinks they should be called Librarymans. Bu pretty much its just a guy who is a librarian. Pretty simple right? And his adventures are, well, adventurous!

Why should someone care about the random musings of a male librarian?  Well, there don’t seem to be many of us.  Someone  has said that 79% of public librarians are female (Dickinson, Thad E.’Looking at the Male Librarian Stereotype’, The Reference Librarian, 37(78), 98).   Not that men are better than women, but in a profession with a large number of women, a male perspective can be different.

I hope this blog can help provide some of that different perspective to the library profession.  I wont be taking a “guy” perspective, but just my take on things from a librarian who happens to be a guy.  I’ll blog about issues and trends that effect libraries and how I see them.  I hope to share some things that I learn and I hope to learn from you too oh wise internet.

While not related to libraries, James Chartrand blogged about the issue of pay as it relates to gender in “his” profession as a writer in his post “Why James Chartrand Wears Women’s Underpants.” It is an eye opening piece and something to think about.

Are librarians not paid as much because there are more women than men? If men dominated the profession would there be a huge pay increase? It’s something to think about.