Writer Urged to Avoid Using Stereotypes

Regarding Kim Kowsky’s article, “The Gadfly and the Clerk” (Times, March 1). When was the last time you saw a “gray, coiffed hair and sturdy chin . . . librarian”? I am a librarian at Beverly Hills Public Library and not one librarian on the staff is gray--except for the gentleman who is supervisor of the reference department, and I hardly think his hair is coiffed. Be careful of stereotypes.

JUNE LEWIN

Los Angeles