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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.

A cautionary tail

Horace Rumpole — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:04:02 -0800

The end of Moore’s influence came when, years later, she tried to block the publication of a book by E. B. White. Watching Moore stand in the way of “Stuart Little,” White’s editor, Ursula Nordstrom, remembered, was like watching a horse fall down, its spindly legs crumpling beneath its great weight. Although librarians don't come out all that well in this story, archivists figure quite heroically in the author's sidebar on her research into the saga.

The Sadder But Wiser Librarian

Del Far — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:55:07 -0800

Is there any other way to Woo a Librarian? I mean, you don't want to cause Trouble, but it's tough to find that girl to be your Shipoopi, but when you meet her, it's like hearing bells.

March of the Librarians

Orb — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:55:45 -0800

March of the librarians: "Twice a year, tens of thousands of librarians make a trek across the United States to a meeting of the ALA. How they know to congregate in the same spot, no one knows. They come to learn, to network, to collect free stuff, and possibly to mate." (YouTube)

decimalize

four panels — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 23:26:49 -0800

Hipster librarians. What, exactly, do these archivists do?

Enemies of Books!

carsonb — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:27:29 -0800

Librarians as Enemies of Books
via the delightfully uptight Steve Mauer at BookMine.

Librarians vs. nuns

445supermag — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:55:36 -0800

Librarians vs. Nuns in a caged death match! (video) (Did I say "caged death match"? I meant "Spelling Bee".)

Radical Militant Librarians Buttons Selling Like Hot Cakes

Blake — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 13:19:33 -0800

While Not All librarians are "militant radicals" apparently we're not all your "stereotypical librarians" either. Incensed by the USA Patriot Act and irate over a memo between FBI agents, the American Library Association debuted a button at its annual midwinter meeting, which winds up in Texas today at the Convention Center. Boasting that its wearers are "Radical Militant Librarians," the button was one of the convention's biggest sellers.

Hell hath no fury like a librarian scorned

Blake — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:30:13 -0800

No... F---- you. Over the course of several months a Florida librarian received unsolicited facsimile transmissions from one particular fax blaster. The number for removal and the number to fax back the advertisements for health insurance, mortgages, hot leads, selling my business and so on just happened to be in his local zrea code. Using super librarian skills and secret librarian tools he sought (legal) revenge, and won. Moral of this story:
1) Don't screw with the librarian
2) Libraries- take action on your unsolicited faxes- they are illegal.
3) Reference tools are your friends!

Those librarians aren't like I remember them

malaprohibita — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:05:54 -0800

And you thought librarians were stuffy. (should be SFW, though some flesh does show)