Visiting probies

Remember these faces. They may be coming to a human resources office near you soon.

I wanted to take the opportunity to showcase both my library and the Pratt SILS program's art and museum focus. I realize the usual term of reference is visiting fireman, but as these are library school students it seemed somehow appropriate. Besides, my term is gender neutral.

Apart from the guy in the electric tie, I can't provide names for any of these worthy visitors to my library yet. But I expect to see a lot of them in the coming week and a half. They are in Pratt's Museum & Library Research two-week intensive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a course founded by Dean Tula Giannini and given by my distinguished colleague Ken Soehner, Arthur K. Watson Chief Librarian of the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Met.

Photo © Erika Hauser

Comments

[Norma]

Some things never change. The librarian's sense of fashion.

[Ross Day]

I'm going to assume you mean my sense of fashion and that you approve. Thanks. As a veteran of many a library conference, I can imagine how you just might be tongue in cheek about it. But how could you? The library crowd I hang with has quite a keen sense of fashion: I am often feel like the sartorial peahen among the peacocks.

The tie, by the way, is from the gift shops at the Sackler & Freer Galleries in Washington, D.C. ... though the tie is not among its online offerings.