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Personality Assessment Instrument  \nConnie J. Bennett Eugene Public Library  \nRecommended Citation  \nBennett, C. J. (2014) . Librarians and Harry Potter: An Introduction of the SHHH! Personality Assessment  \nInstrument. OLA Quarterly, 14(1), 9-13 . [http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/1093-7374.1186](http://dx.doi.org/10.7710/1093-7374.1186)  \n© 2014 by the author(s) .  \nOLA Quarterly is an official publication of the Oregon Library Association | ISSN 1093-7374  \nLibrarians and Harry Potter:  \nAn Introduction of the SHHH! Personality Assessment Instrument  \nby Connie J. Bennett  \nDirector,  \nEugene Public Library  \nMadame Pince, the cranky mis  \ntress ofthe library at Hogwarts, is hardly a role model to emulate.  \nIn the librarian’s constant search for professional balance between providing generous community access to resources on the one hand—and safeguarding those resources from the public on the other—she’s clearly on the parsimonious end of the continuum.  \nHowever, in a discussion of the librarian’s image—or anything else, for that matter—in popular media, Madame Pince cannot be ignored. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books1 are nothing if not popular. The seventh and final book of the series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, sold a record-breaking 8.3 million copies in its first 24 hours on sale in the United States, according to Scholastic.“No other book, not even any of the six previous Potters, has been so desired, so quickly. Deathly Hallows averaged more than 300,000 copies in sales per hour—more than 5,000 a minute.”2  \nMadame Pince provides an ironic contrast to the real-life librarians worldwide who have eagerly put the books into readers’ hands, have opened library doors at midnight for special release parties, have sought to connect kids with more books through “read-alike” kits, displays, and lists. And to the real-life librarians who have defended the rights of youth to read the Harry Potter books at all.  \nAnother record achieved by Rowling’s books is frequency of challenges. The Harry Potter books were number seven on the American Library Association’s list of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990–2000. In a 2007 Banned Books Week media release, the ALA reported,“The Harry Potter series ranks as the number one most challenged book series of the 21st Century (2000–2006).”3 While many articles have been written in defense of the books, there have also been many written against them; Rowling’s Madame Pince, guardian  \n9  \nof the Hogwarts library’s restricted shelves, would stand squarely with the latter group.  \nJ.K. Rowling has acknowledged that the Pince caricature is merely a plot device. During a benefit reading on August 2, 2006 at Radio City Music Hall, answering a question from a librarian in the audience, she said,“I thought you were going to attack me for Madam Pince and I would like to apologize for you and any other librarians (crowd laughs) present here today and my get-out clause is always if they’d had a pleasant, helpful librarian, half my plots would be gone.‘Cause the answer invariably is in a book, but Hermione has to go and find it. If they’d had a good librarian, that would have been that problem solved. So, sorry.”4  \nWith Rowling’s books still occupying multiple slots on the best selling books list this week5 no matter how you count it,6 perhaps we librarians should move beyond the caricature to look for other aspects of the Harry Potter stories that can speak to our organizational—and thus perhaps to our professional—lives and images.  \nLibraries have, as organizations, adopted many of the tools and models of the business world to identify work styles, improve communication, reduce workplace conflict, increase team effectiveness and productivity, and for library staff to better understand ourselves","cbCail4Ij87pD732","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCail4Ij87pD732","pdf",226884,"English","# Introduction and context\n## Libraries in popular media\n## Harry Potter challenges and media reception\n# SHHH! 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