When I was in library school I had to do a two page paper on a famous librarian. I chose Hypatia and was surprised to learn that she was not, in fact, a “librarian” per se; she was a mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and teacher. She was not an expert in metadata. She did not direct people to websites for finding employment, add subject headings, perform little rabbit foo foo at 10 AM on Thursdays, tweet about the library’s plant exchange, direct parents to materials for dealing with fluffy’s death, or attend city council meetings (or, perhaps she went to one too many…?) I don’t want to belabor this metaphor too much, and I also don’t want to downplay the value of our current definition of what it means to be a librarian. But an idea has been humming in the back of my head ever since I began using digital media in storytimes…