Curtis and I saw Moonrise Kingdom, the new Wes Anderson movie, last Friday.
Here's part of the opening scene:
That narrator is supposedly the "island cartographer." But we found this bonus material on YouTube, and it turns out he's also the island's librarian!
The movie was great, and I definitely recommend it!
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Showing posts with label videos. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Do You Want to be a Librarian?
A librarian friend posted this video on her Facebook this week, and it is awesome. It was shot in 1947, and besides a couple points of blatant sexism is still a pretty good representation of the heart of librarianship. Love!
My favorite part is the guy at 3:09 who's like "I don't know the author or the title, but it's a blue book," and the librarian says, "I think we can help you," instead of punching him in the face, which is what I would have done. OK, not really. But geez. Actually, that's something I've brought up in my metadata class--that the physical description, while not super helpful for organizing, is more important for recall than you might imagine. I've seen more than enough people asking for a certain color book or book with certain cover art to know that sometimes that's really all a person knows, so we should be able to work with that to help them out.
My favorite part is the guy at 3:09 who's like "I don't know the author or the title, but it's a blue book," and the librarian says, "I think we can help you," instead of punching him in the face, which is what I would have done. OK, not really. But geez. Actually, that's something I've brought up in my metadata class--that the physical description, while not super helpful for organizing, is more important for recall than you might imagine. I've seen more than enough people asking for a certain color book or book with certain cover art to know that sometimes that's really all a person knows, so we should be able to work with that to help them out.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Cool Card Catalog
This is too cool--had to share it.
Plus, a confession: I've never actually used a card catalog! I don't think I even really know how. I think I'm just young enough that computers were the norm in libraries, even the public library I went to as a child.
Does your library have a card catalog? Or is it simply a fond memory/legend?
P.S. Theologian Thursday should be forthcoming...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Caturday!
It's Caturday!
I ended my first presentation of library school with Keyboard Cat, so I thought I'd share it for my first Caturday post.
It's a classic.
I ended my first presentation of library school with Keyboard Cat, so I thought I'd share it for my first Caturday post.
It's a classic.
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