Avatars

So, while I'm thinking about it, I thought I should say a word about the idea of an Avatar Librarian. I really can see the appeal in that concept--whether you're a fan of the past & would like to interact with Sherlock Holmes or Indiana Jones, the Goddess Athena or Diana, better known as Wonder Woman--or prefer the Future, where your information source could be a cloud of mist or a diembodied brain, like that of the faux Oz wizard.

Whether you prefer images cartoonish or scholarly--more Hollywood or more Oxford University--there could be "something for everyone".

I find myself thinking about the man in Total Recall, being asked to describe his dream companion for his "vacation" to Mars, in which he requests not only hair & eye color, but attitude & presentation. In a world of Avatar Librarians, I would think you might have the choices of a pre-fabricated concept (enter Sherlock Holmes or Athena), or perhaps you would choose to customize a librarian to suit you... It had never occured to me that the Game World nor Science Fiction would ever invade the world of the Library, but I suppose "anything is possible" in the "limitless" world of the Future...