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Librarians in Picture Books
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Danger of Stereotypes
The Librarian
Librarians in Picture Books
Stereotypes
Stereotypes and Reality
- Stereotypes help “organize, process, and understand their social environment in a reliable and predictable manner”
(Frawley, 2008, p. 291)
Kelly Allen
University of Texas - School of Information
"So much for fact. In fiction we are pictured either as the old fogy bookworm or the ideal librarian."
-Helen Rex Keller, "The Old-Fashioned Virtues Versus the Ideal Librarian", Library Journal, July 1909.
28 Depictions
16
Books
vs.
4
men
24
women
Dehumanized
Monsters
Physical Depiction of Individual
Animals
Transforming Stereotypes
"Others"
- Gender
- Age
- Race
vs.
- Animals
- Monsters
- Dehumanized
- Dress/Style
Extreme Stereotypical
- Behavior Depicted
Stereotypical
Non-stereotypical!
Matches
Mismatches
Stylistic/Composition Elements
Mismatches
Stereotypical style confirming stereotype
Nonstereotypical style confirming non-stereotype
Stereotypical style with non-stereotype
Nonstereotypical style with stereotype
- Match
- Stereotypical - Stereotypical
- Nonstereotypical - Nonstereotypical
- Mismatch
- Stereotypical - Nonstereotypical
- Nonstereotypical - Stereotypical
Why does this matter???
Future Implications
62% of a surveyed group of community and government leaders, academic presidents, writers, and producers said they formed their image of librarians in childhood.
Bottomline.
Authors and illustrators can “supply powerful images by means of text and illustrations that challenge or perpetuate stereotypes.”
(Kitchen, 2000, p. 3).
Depiction
of
librarians!
Ultimately effects children's perspective:
-of librarians
-of libraries
-of future careers
"An unfavorable public stereotype, one that is inaccurate, can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. As it is disseminated and becomes firmly implanted in the public mind, it begins to become true, for it attracts persons who are like it. The situation then becomes a vicious circle in which the now partially true stereotype attracts persons who in turn make the prophecy more true. That this has occurred in the library profession there can be little doubt."
(Wilson as cited in Kitchen, 2000, p. 2)