Jaybrarian

We have all head of a jay walker (someone who crosses the street outside the crosswalk). Well I was reading my September issue of American Libraries and came across an article titled "Consider the Jaybrarian." This article referred to newly minted library professionals straight out of their master's programs (that will soon be us). When I saw the article and read the opening paragraph about the comparison to jay walkers I was worried that this might be an article on how new LIS graduates are unaware of the rules and 'ways' in which libraries that get hired at work. I was thinking this might be more of a negative article about how we may not be as knowledgable as the other staff who have been working there for years. I was wrong!! This is an article about how, as new LIS graduates, we bring a vast amount of new optimism and enthusiam to our field, because we are eager to take our place in our profession. The author states that in ways the Jaybrarians will always walk outside the defined lines of an organization, but that this is not bad because it can lead to more creative innovation. The author says that the profession should accept these new professionals with open arms, because we may have solutions even if we are the fresh new faces of the profession.