Nancy at work: http://catalogueblog.blogspot.com/2004/05/my-life-as-library-action-figure.html#comments

I’m going to create my first environment for Nancy on Monday. I need to do it at work, because I want to use the desk divider to look like an action-figure size display board.

That is a great idea, Annie. As a person who used to build and decorate doll houses (when I was much younger), I think it would be great fun.

I also think that an online exhibition (or a simple weblog meme) could be potentially educational for non-librarians. Special librarians, like j, who do not work in libraries, could build non-library environments for their action figures, for example.

Although I am bookishly-inclined and work in a bookish-environment, I think that it is important to promote and celebrate the whole spectrum of librarianship. As I commented yesterday on j’s weblog, since librarians work in a wide variety of work environments (and do a wide variety of tasks), our librarian action figures should reflect our specific environments–as well any environment that we may imagine.

This is a great idea! What about an online exhibition of work environments for Nancy? They could be craft projects, rooms assembled from shop-bought furniture, or other interesting backdrops… so many people have Nancy on their desks, I’m sure lots of people would be interested.

Since I’m a librarian without a library, I never considered that my action figure might be unhappy without a library. Hhhhmmmm …