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Library Lion

In Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes, a lion visits the library and causes some consternation to some of the librarians. This book makes me cry every time. Thanks, Amanda Newman!

May 18, 2010 at 6:35 pm Leave a comment

“Librarian” by Haunted Love. Gorgeous video, beautiful song. “Don’t you find me appealing in a nerdy sort of way?” I found out about this song from Marilyn Johnson’s This Book is Overdue: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All. She says: “The song ‘Librarian’ by the New Zealand duo Haunted Love debuted in 2006 with a video featuring two attractive performers suited up as mock librarians, hair pulled back, glasses in place, fingers and feet tapping in disapproval as a patron committed various crimes, like scattering books through the library and sticking gum under a table. The ‘librarians’ lure the culprit into the closed reserves with the promise of new magazines, then crush him between the movable stacks. The video recycled the usual cliches, but at least it was stylishly done.” Thanks, Marilyn Johnson!

April 5, 2010 at 1:03 am Leave a comment

Reading Rainbow video: “Check It Out”

Wouldn’t it be great if we got to perform a big long song and dance routine whenever patrons entered the library? Well, I think it would be. Originally aired 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU–IvskmWA&NR=1 Thanks, Diane Westerfield!

March 25, 2010 at 3:47 pm Leave a comment

Lunch Lady and the League of Librarians

Book 2 in Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Lunch Lady series. The librarians are the villains — they want to stop kids from playing video games. During a battle with the lunch ladies, the librarians release beasts from library books (a lion from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; three little pigs from The Three Little Pigs, and so on.) The lunch ladies use their hairnet nets to capture the librarians. After they triumph, the lunch ladies set up a Read-a-thon where students read books while waiting for their turn on the new X-Station 5000. Find this book in a library near you using Open Worldcat.

February 19, 2010 at 9:42 pm Leave a comment

Mr. Bean, The Library

Library unknown, first aired November 5, 1990 (Season 1, Episode 16). http://www.youtube.comwatch?v=TGjnuV1iIWc

February 18, 2010 at 5:20 pm Leave a comment

Head Over Heels

Literal video version of “Head Over Heels” by Tears for Fears. Emmanual College Library, Toronto, Canada, original video mid-1980s, literal version 2008. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6342db2270/head-over-heels-literal-video-version-from-dustfilms “I’m looking for a specific book…”