Tara Brabazon

Tara Brabazon achieved some notoriety a couple of years ago with The University of Google, a dreadful book which one of the RL team had the misfortune to read.

Flattered that a real academic appeared to be taking their views seriously, she found a ready audience amongst info-lit librarians and has spoken at conferences including LILAC. She, in turn, is probably grateful for the gigs - we can't imagine she gets many other offers.

She thinks librarians are important "because they punctuate the information landscape, controlling and managing enthusiasm and confusion." This shows her in terryfying action (note the ironic overhead projector).