Posts filed under ‘video’
“Librarian” by Haunted Love
“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!
Paradoxymoron
Paradoxymoron is a 1996 painting (with a surprise) by Patrick Hughes currently hanging in the basement of the British Library in London. Here’s a video that shows it off nicely. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
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!
Don and the Dewey Decimals
Library staff perform the chicken dance with book trucks at the Hartzler Library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisburg, Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whoL0m15rE4. Thanks, Anna Creech!
The Hackney Bunch
The Hackney Bunch, Hackney Library, Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina, February 2010. Video introducing the library staff at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMUOQR8kac. Thanks, Anna Creech!
Silent dance party at Carleton College
Silent dance party at Gould Library at Carleton College (and elsewhere on campus too), December 2009. Playlist decided in advance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhDmAAiE0E and more at Carleton’s own site, here: http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/activities/silent_dance_party/. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
Avoid the Zombie Horde
How to Print a Document at the COD Library While Avoiding the Zombie Horde. College of Dupage Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68doU1SxbY (Thanks, Marianne!)
Study Hard
Student-made mockumentary, Penrose Library, Whitman College, 2008. http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2008/10/library-as-placearound-1-am.html (Thanks, Michael Paulus!)
Collingswood Library Promo
Library promo in the style of an old-timey silent film. Collingswood Library, Collingswood, New Jersey, July 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Wx25Mk-Ek (Thanks, Joan Petit!)
The Resourcerer’s Apprentice
The Resourcerer’s Apprentice. Mudd Library, Oberlin College, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k8tYano3bs “Behind the scenes”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXYjpwb8mBI (Thanks, Ed Vermue!)
Library Shenanigans 