The Men of the Stacks

(I try not to re-post too much of what I write for Bark, but this time I just had to. This calendar is a must have for all literature lovers. Pun intended.)

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Forget sexy firemen or Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit calendars. What you really want is to have the Men of the Stacks keep track of 2012 for you.

All proceeds go to the It Gets Better Fund, as a dedication to Jeffries Morrisey, the deceased Head of Reference and Research Services at the University of San Francisco Library, and a driving force behind the calendar project.

In the Men of the Stacks own words:

There is an entire population of professional librarians out there who disagree with the way the library profession is perceived in contemporary media outlets and in the historical consciousness of the American mind.  Different people and different associations will use different means to try to change those perceptions.  This is ours.

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What do we want to tell you about who we are?  What are these alternative images?  Easy.  We are, or [sic] course, professionals.  We are educators, programmers, project managers, entrepreneurs, program coordinators, contractors, consultants, and speakers.  We are academics.  We are authors, diversity officers, historians, administrators, deans, professors, and researchers.  We are creatives.  We are musicians, bakers, painters, and storytellers.  We are athletes, yogis, gym-rats, runners, and hikers.  We are passionate.  We are dog-lovers, radicals, conservatives, Christians, and Buddhists.  We are in our twenties.  We are in our forties.  We are in relationships.  We are perpetual bachelors.  We are privileged beings who try to use their advantages to better the lives of others.

Who are we?  We are The Men of the Stacks.