#13 Animated Librarians!

Who am I: Norman D. Stevens

What I do: Director of University Libraries, Emeritus, University of Connecticut at Storrs; and Director, The Molesworth Institute

Where I do it: The Institute's headquarters at 143 Hanks Hill Road, Storrs, CT 06268

LTC: Most rewarding thing that happened recently?

Norm: Having "The Fully Electronic Academic Library" published in C&RL (January 2006) as well as in Sweden with versions in Italy and France in the works.

LTC: Hobbies aside from reading?

Norm: collecting anything and everything having to do with librarian and libraries; collecting contemporary crafts; being aware of individual and institutional collections and directing stuff that comes my way to good homes.

LTC: One thing that you wish more people knew about libraries and what they do?

Norm: Their vital role as Gatekeepers to the world of information.

LTC: Books or technology?

Norm: Books for reading and technology for information; both to learn everything I want to know.

LTC: What's on your CD player now?

Norm: "Casanova's Waltz" (set in a library) from Peter Spencer' s "New Hope and Wise Virgins."

LTC: Favorite depiction of a librarian in fiction/tv/movies?

Norm: Hands down it's Goldie Hawn as Gloria Mundy in "Foul Play" (1978).

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Love the cartoon Norm! Thanks for sharing your love of all things library with us!

--Amy