If the Shoe Fits

Biblioposers love to present themselves as hep, a-go-go advocates of the brave new world of Information Science. They loathe the old image of pencil-stuffed-hairbun-wearing dowagers and want to be seen as full partners in cutting edge technologies that are threatening to stupefy the planet. But every once in a while they must play to an audience that remembers books and their profession's former identity as custodians of the codex. When that happens Biblioposers trot out the old symbols again and reclaim their time-honored role. The duplicity becomes more obvious as books disappear to make room for more computers and services that are totally alien to the institutions that Andrew Carnegie so nobly funded. In the True Archives world, we can see past the disguise.