Ask a Manager is once more Relevant To My Interests

(I don't think I mentioned here the suggestion, some while ago, of Madame C- C- among Good Boss Models?)

But anyway, yesterday Alison asked 'Let’s talk about how your field is represented — or more likely, misrepresented — on TV and movies or books'.

And very shortly the archivists and librarians started chipping in! concerning Gross Misrepresentation in meedja, not to mention stereotyping.

The NO! NOT THE WHITE GLOVES!!!! discussion appears to have got broken off and occurs a bit lower down here and here.

I really don't think I need to invent myself a pseudonym and sign in, these complaints are generic to everyone, pretty much, who works in these fields, sigh.

In my own experience I have come across Egregious Errors in works set in institutions that I actually worked in - no, it really doesn't work like that, no no no - but I was pretty sure that 'being admitted into the stacks to fossick about among the records' in a French provincial archive was cloud-cuckoo-land. There was also the cozy 'humorous' mystery set in a rare books collection in which they appeared to be letting random people just roam the stacks (subplot involving somebody replacing books with Some Other Books), or rather, the books were all out there where people could wander among the shelves.