Comments on: Librarians on Parade

Librarians on Parade

froggmaiden — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:45:41 -0800

It's that time again. While they aren't otherwise occupied maintaining an open and informed society, and keeping an eye on our first amendment rights, librarians across the country are apparently... breaking out their dance moves.

For the fourth year running, the ALA hosts the national Book Cart Drill Team Competition. Mefi thread from inaugural year here. Clip shows the winning team from Santa Monica, CA. More information, and links to some of the runners up can be found here, about nine paragraphs down.

By: desjardins

desjardins — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:58:38 -0800

I hope they don't quit their day jobs.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:05:22 -0800

This sort of thing is why I don't go to ALA, OLA, CLA or any other -LA conference.

By: robtf3

robtf3 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:05:30 -0800

Librarians are such a fun, strange breed.

By: The Card Cheat

The Card Cheat — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:10:16 -0800

I'll give you strange, robtf3.

By: TheNewWazoo

TheNewWazoo — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:31:18 -0800

*checks jessamyn's blog*

By: kleptolovestory

kleptolovestory — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:42:40 -0800

One of my friends was in the Austin group. I believe they came in second.

By: Halloween Jack

Halloween Jack — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:46:16 -0800

Some of us have even had sex! With our shirts off and everything! *eyeroll*

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:50:16 -0800

Get off my hipper-than-thou lawn!

By: tommasz

tommasz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:19:34 -0800

Some of us have even had sex! With our shirts off and everything! But quietly, right?

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:40:04 -0800

I just named all of our book carts this week. The nine general collection reshelving carts are, of course, named after the Fellowship, while the Reference cart is Saruman and Periodicals carts are Smeagol and Gollum. The generic project carts are all Mario characters, so in addition to the plumber and his brother, we have Peach, Bowser, Toad, and Birdo. It is kind of sick, the love affair between a librarian and their book carts.

By: elfgirl

elfgirl — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:40:34 -0800

This sort of thing is why I don't go to ALA, OLA, CLA or any other -LA conference. I can confidently say that there's been nothing like this at any SLA annual conference I've been to. We did, however, have a field trip to the Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame this year in Seattle.

By: mediamelt

mediamelt — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:59:11 -0800

Quite possibly the geekiest/greatest thing I have seen today.

By: suelange

suelange — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:19:27 -0800

I don't get it.

By: aldus_manutius

aldus_manutius — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:27:59 -0800

Oy ... the things we have to do to keep ourselves in the public eye ... just remember, we can hide your dissertation just as easily as we can find it ... :-) *returns to copying data maps and data dictionaries for art department slide digitization project...*

By: box

box — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:38:34 -0800

From the front-page text, I thought this would be another DDR-at-the-library post. What a relief.

By: TomMelee

TomMelee — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:22:24 -0800

I read an article in the NYT about how that library totally hired ringers to win that competition, and about how they were all jacked up on ritalin and ginko and kombucha to keep their focus w/o tweaking out. I mean I didn't, but wouldn't that be a wicked article? Also, does that go on your resume?

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:07:59 -0800

Haha, librarians rock!

By: QIbHom

QIbHom — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:38:33 -0800

I suppose it would be self-incriminating to mention that I have a book truck in my dining room. They were going to throw it out! It followed me home!

By: SuzySmith

SuzySmith — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:34:27 -0800

This just adds to why I love librarians so much. Who else could love books as much as I do, and geek out with a book cart like that?

By: librarylis

librarylis — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:51:26 -0800

I'm pretty sure I recognize people in that video. I'm also convinced that this is TOTALLY the wrong way to bring librarians into the 21st century, but one doesn't want to deprive people of their fun. I have to say ALA was an experience for me: librarians who looked like librarians. Oh well, nothing wrong with joining a profession where *I* am the one who looks 'hip.'