ARTICLE ANNOTATION 5

Morrisey, Locke J. and Case, Donald O. “There Goes My Image: The Perception of Male
Librarians by Colleague, Student, and Self.” College & Research Libraries. 49.5
(1988): 453-464.

Morrisey and Case present a study of undergraduate and graduate students as well as university librarians concerning perceptions of male librarians. The article states, “In general, the members of the male library group felt the male librarian is looked on negatively when he actually was looked on quite positively by the other respondents.”
This commentary is very useful because it contains a survey of library students and professional librarians from a variety of backgrounds. The authors show the misconceptions and image-consciousness that many people experience, and illustrate the perceptions of librarians themselves. The article offers a great deal of interesting data about male librarians in the field of library science.