# We have a new Librarian of Congress **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845 "2016-07-13T20:13:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/1 "2016-07-13T20:13:17Z")
And for a change, she’s a librarian (it’s been more than 60 years since the LoC was actually a librarian). Dr. Carla Hayden was [confirmed today](https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/dr-carla-hayden-serve-next-librarian-congress/). She has a stellar history of leadership in libraries, and as a librarian, I’m very excited to see the direction she takes the LoC. I’m happy about it, but to many of you it’s probably both mundane and pointless. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/2 "2016-07-13T20:41:56Z")
I’m more amazed that the Senate actually confirmed an appointee for once. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/3 "2016-07-13T20:45:10Z")
So is she going to lay down the law on all those congressmen who have overdue books? ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/4 "2016-07-13T20:57:33Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > So is she going to lay down the law on all those congressmen who have overdue books? I don’t care about that. I want her to modernize the shit out of the LOC. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/5 "2016-07-13T20:59:12Z")
First the Oscars, then People’s Sexiest Man Alive, and now Librarian of Congress. I don’t know how much more rejection I can take this year! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/6 "2016-07-13T21:20:48Z")
Hey, I was just joking. > [@Lsura](#): > > I don’t care about that. I want her to modernize the shit out of the LOC. 🙂 Good luck getting the money to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/7 "2016-07-13T21:50:40Z")
Why in the heck would there have been an LOC who **wasn’t** a librarian?😕 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/8 "2016-07-13T23:03:45Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > First the Oscars, then People’s Sexiest Man Alive, and now Librarian of Congress. I don’t know how much more rejection I can take this year! Only two major award ceremonies left: the Nobel Prizes and the MTV Video Music Awards. We’re rooting for you to win in either Physics or Best Choreography. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/9 "2016-07-13T23:31:45Z")
She’s highly respected in the library world. Yes, it’s good to see an actual librarian in the position. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/10 "2016-07-13T23:53:32Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Why in the heck would there have been an LOC who **wasn’t** a librarian?😕 Politics, the fact that librarianship is strongly seen as a pink collar profession, and I’m sure other reasons as well. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2016, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/11 "2016-07-13T23:55:16Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Only two major award ceremonies left: the Nobel Prizes and the MTV Video Music Awards. We’re rooting for you to win in either Physics or Best Choreography. Beyonce wrote the best book this year! ---
**Author:** ![AllShookDown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@AllShookDown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AllShookDown)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/12 "2016-07-14T12:35:11Z")
The three librarians in my family are happy about it. ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/13 "2016-07-14T16:10:54Z")
Another librarian here doing the huzzah for a real librarian as Librarian of Congress. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/14 "2016-07-14T20:33:15Z")
Next thing you know they’ll be putting real backup singers on the Supremes Court. “Guilty!” Doo wap, doo wap. 'Tis indeed odd that the Librarian of Congress wasn’t a real librarian for so long. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/15 "2016-07-14T22:54:01Z")
We need Conan the Librarian!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2016, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/16 "2016-07-14T22:57:12Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Only two major award ceremonies left: the Nobel Prizes and the MTV Video Music Awards. We’re rooting for you to win in either Physics or Best Choreography. I’m nominated for the Nobel for Best Kiss. And I don’t like to name drop but I’m pretty sure one of my SDMB posts inspired Lin Manuel Miranda to write Hamilton. ---
**Author:** ![Marine\_One](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marine_one/32/3461_2.png) [@Marine\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marine_One)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/we-have-a-new-librarian-of-congress/759845/17 "2016-07-15T23:57:12Z")
I just hope she has high values like this: “I don’t judge a man by the length of his hair or the kind of music he listens to. Rock was never my bag. But you put on a pair of shoes when you walk into the New York Public Library, fella.”- Bookman