Happy Monday!

Two librarian-related items to discuss today:

1. The San Francisco Mime Troup is doing a show titled "Veronique of the Mounties: Operation Frozen Freedom," which prominently features a librarian. From what I understand, it is a good show, appears to be free, and is playing in the Bay area through September 1.

2. Keri kindly sent me the link to a story about the new librarian action figure. Now, as much we need more action figures of librarians and other good role models, I'm not sure that the stereotype of the shushing librarian needs to be propagated. As the story states,

The company's owner Mark Pahlow says the librarian doll comes holding a new release novel and can tell people to be quiet.

"It has what we call in the trade the kung-fu 'shoosh' arm," he said.

"You push a button on the back and the arm goes up to the chin with a raised finger as though she was saying 'shoosh'."

Ahem. I don't think so. According to Libraryman, this is the brainchild of Archie McPhee.