Librarians as seen by the media
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Video done originally for a presentation I did at the Tri-Association Annual Educators' Conference of the Association of American Schools of Central America, Colombia, Caribbean and Mexico.http://www.tri- association.org/ on 14th October 2010 .. venue Monterrey Mexico.
I was presenting virtual from Thailand
Images of librarians as seen in Hollywood, on TV and in the media.
Do you recognise the movies, TV programs, publications? This video could also be a catalyst on discussions about librarian stereotyping (or not).
Plus ... I offer it as some fun ... enjoy.
- created at http://animoto.com
To download a good quality (mp4) version of this video 50MB go to http://dl.drop box.com/u/5852705/ librariansinmedia%28animoto%29.mp4
If you like this or use it then please also tell please about the page on the Shambles website designed specifically to support library staff and teacher librarians at http://www.sham bles.net/librarian/
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[scene opens with a still image of a sign reading "Librarian Parking Only, All Others Will Be Overdue"]
["How does the media portray librarians?" appears on screen]
[cut to a still image from the movie "It's a Wonderful Life" with the caption "A wretched alternate fate is revealed for Mary Hatch Bailey (Donna Reed) in It's A Wonderful Life (1946): 'She's closing up the library!'"]
[cut to a still image of an elderly female librarian sitting at the reference desk, with the caption "Reference librarian from a DHL television commercial (2006)"]
[cut to a still image of a book cover (featuring a young woman holding a book) with the title "Jinny Williams Library Assistant, A Career Romance for Young Moderns"]
[cut to a still image of a 1950s pinup drawing (featuring a young woman holding a book while leaning up against a stool in front of a bookshelf)]
[cut to a still image of a poster advertising the book "Revolting Librarians Redux" (featuring a picture of a hammer next to a pile of books with the caption "Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the library ... ")]
[cut to a still image of the book "Unshelved" by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum]
[cut to a still image of a poster featuring James Franco holding a book with the caption "Read"]
[cut to a still image of a caricature featuring a young female librarian with eight arms doing multiple tasks (shelving books, typing on the computer, answering the phone, etc.)]
[cut to a still image from the New Jersey State Library's comic book "Super Librarian" (featuring a young female librarian wearing purple tights and a yellow cape while holding a book)]
[cut to a still image of a fantasy illustration featuring a young woman leaning on a pile of books as a dragon breathes fire in the background]
[cut to a still image of a cartoon female librarian with the caption "She Blinded Me With Library Science"]
[cut to a still image of a young female librarian wearing a bellydancing outfit with the caption "The Bellydancing Librarian"]
[cut to a still image of a young woman standing on a stepstool with the caption "'Shelving in Silhouette,' winner of the 2005 A Day in the Life of the Law Library Community Photo Contest"]
[cut to a still image of former First Lady Laura Bush reading a book with a young girl, with the caption "Laura Welch Bush, who was an Elementary School librarian before marrying George W. Bush, has advanced several literary initiatives as First Lady of the United States."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" with the caption "Where else can people flee to from rapidly melting polar icecaps causing giant tidal waves but the Manhattan Public Library. From The Day After Tomorrow (2004)."]
[cut to a publicity still of Noah Wyle with the caption "Noah Wyle stars as a curator of magical artifacts in the TNT Action Movies The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004) and The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)."]
[cut to a still image of the movie poster for "The Pagemaster" with the caption "Richard Tyler (Macaulay Culkin) is led on a fantastical adventure through a library by Mr. Dewey (Christopher Lloyd), AKA The Pagemaster (1994)."]
[cut to a still image from one of the Harry Potter films with the caption "The library at the Hogwarts School for Witches and Wizards. - Harry Potter series (1998-2007)"]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Sophie's Choice" with the caption "'Do you want me to draw you a map?' barks a staggeringly rude and unhelpful librarian (John Rothman) at Sophie Zawistowski (Meryl Streep) in Sophie's Choice (1982)."]
["How does the media portray librarians?" appears on screen]
[cut to a still image from the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television series with the caption "Librarian Rupert Giles (Anthony Head) kept a careful watch over Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "UHF" with the caption "'Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?!' demands Conan the Librarian in UHF (1989)."]
[cut to a still image from the "Seinfeld" television series with the caption "Lt. Bookman, a library cop, is hot on the trail of Jerry's overdue book in the Seinfeld episode 'The Library' (1991)."]
[cut to a still image from the original "Star Trek" television series with the caption "Mr. Atoz (Ian Wolfe) and his clones oversee an historical library on a doomed planet in the Star Trek episode 'All Our Yesterdays' (1969)."]
[cut to a still image of an orangutan holding a book, with the caption "A depiction of The Librarian of Unseen University from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of fantasy novels."]
[cut to a still image from the "Monty Python's Flying Circus" television series with the caption "The 'Gorilla Librarian' sketch from Monty Python's Flying Circus."]
[cut to a still image from the "Married With Children" television series with the caption "Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) pulls off a typical claims returned trick on an old and bitter librarian in the Married... with Children episode 'He Thought He Could' (1988)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Scent of a Woman" with the caption "Circulation desk worker Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell) breaks the rules and lets his fair-weathered friend George Willis, Jr. (Philip Seymour Hoffman) take a reserve book out of the library. From Scent of a Woman (1992)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Music Man" with the caption "Shirley Jones as the no-nonsense 'Marian the Librarian' in The Music Man (1962)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Time Machine" with the caption "Vox (Orlando Jones), a holographic entity possessing a 'compendium of all human knowledge.' Where does Vox work? A futuristic New York Public Library. From The Time Machine (2002)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Lord of the Rings" with the caption "An archivist guides Gandalf (Ian McKellen) through ancients scrolls, to a most important discovery. - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Philadelphia" with the caption "In Philadelphia (1993), a librarian (Tracey Walter) encourages an ailing Andrew Beckett (Tom Hanks) to use a private study room."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Major League" with the caption "'Books are my life now,' explains librarian Lynn Weslin (Rene Russo) in Major League (1989)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Foul Play" with the caption "Goldie Hawn stars as a librarian (Gloria Mundy) in the screwball thriller Foul Play (1978)."]
[cut to a still image of a poster featuring Yvonne Joyce Craig in full costume with the caption "Batgirl Was a Librarian"]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Mummy" with Rachel Weisz holding a torch]
[cut to a still image of a movie poster for "Party Girl" with the caption "Mary (Parker Posey) is the ultimate Party Girl (1995) who discovers, 'I want to be a librarian!'"]
["And librarians never ... ever ... never ... forget" appears on screen, then cut to footage of librarians bathing elephants in a river]
[cut to a still image from the "Every Time We Touch" music video with the caption "Cascada cuts loose in the library in the 2006 disco hit 'Every Time We Touch.'"]
[cut to a still image of the album cover for "Tales of a Librarian" with the caption "In 2003 singer Tori Amos released a compilation album entitled 'Tales of a Librarian.'"]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag" with the caption "Betty Lou Perkins (Penelope Ann Miller), a shy librarian, makes a discovery in The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Desk Set" with the caption "Bunny Watson (Katharine Hepburn) teaches Richard Sumner (Spencer Tracy) a few things about modern research methods in Desk Set (1957)."]
["How does the media portray librarians?" appears on screen]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Ghostbusters" with the caption "Dr. Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) leads fellow Ghostbusters (1984) Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) and Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray) through a haunted New York Public Library."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" with the caption "Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) talks with Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet), who works at a Barnes & Noble store, in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Black Mask" with the caption "Jet Li is a librarian/supersoldier in the Hong Kong action film Black Mask (1996)."]
[cut to a still image from the "Twilight Zone" television series with the caption "In an Orwellian future, a librarian (played by Burgess Meredith) fills the title role of 'The Obsolete Man' (1961) in an episode from The Twilight Zone."]
[cut to a still image of red-garbed male librarian marching around a grey library, with the caption "Musclebound, uniformed librarians march and shush library patrons in a Packard Bell commercial for home computers (1996)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Name of the Rose" with the caption "Brother William of Baskerville (Sean Connery) investigates a series of mysterious deaths in a medieval monastery - apparently involving a vast secret library and a book that kills - in The Name of the Rose (1986)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Storm Center" with the caption "As a librarian in a small town, Alicia Hull (Bette Davis) befriends Freddie Slater (Kevin Coughlin) - while combating challenges to her collection development decisions during the height of the Red Scare - in Storm Center (1956)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "The Shawshank Redemption" with the caption "The prison library in The Shawshank Redemption (1994)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" with the caption "A librarian stamping books in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)."]
[cut to a promotional image from the "Stacked" television series with the caption "Pamela Anderson starred in the FOX Television comedy Stacked (2005-2006)."]
[cut to a still image of a poster featuring Lucy Liu sitting on the lap of a young female librarian ("For incredible movie experiences in your lap, get Intel Centrino in your laptop"), with the caption "Intel ad with Lucy Liu in the lap of a librarian (2005)."]
[cut to a still image of a poster promoting "The Library" (a bar in Manhattan), featuring two female librarians seductively looking into the camera while holding wine glasses ("Library Bar, 7 Avenue A NYC, librarybarnyc dot com, librarians Erinn & Elizabeth, photo Kristopher David Lett")]
[cut to a still image featuring two web ads for adult bars (one called "The Library Gentlemans Club" with a picture of a young brunette, the other called "The Library VIP Card" featuring a young blonde wearing glasses and a low cut blouse saying "With a Library Card ... You'll be checking out more than Books!") with the caption "Advertisements for The Library Bar (New York) and The Library (Las Vegas)."]
[cut to a still image of a poster featuring a young woman with the Bacardi logo tattooed on the small of her back ("Librarian by day, Bacardi by night"), with the caption "Magazine advertisement for Bacardi Rum."]
[cut to a still image of a poster featuring a woman wearing a blue bikini and kneeling on a diving board ("She's Not Your Typical Librarian. Laura Sophiea, 46, 2001 World Champion Masters Triathlete, full-time librarian, mother of three, and loyal Mack's Earplugs user"), with the caption "Magazine advertisement for Mack's Earplugs."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Debbie Does Dallas" with the caption "Debbie gets friendly with a librarian in Debbie Does Dallas (1978)."]
[cut to a still image from the movie "Tomcats" with the caption "Heather Stephens plays Jill, the awkward librarian (and closet dominatrix), in Tomcats (2001)."]
[cut to a still image from the January 1959 issue of "Playboy Magazine" (featuring a young woman - fully clothed and with a bun in her hair - standing in the library), with the caption "Librarian and Playmate of the Month Virginia Gordon."]
[cut to a still image from the comic strip "Family Circus", featuring Billy and Dolly walking out of the library while the young girl puts a finger to her lips and says "To be a librarian, all you have to learn is how to say 'SHH!'"]
[cut to a still image from the comic strip "Mother Goose and Grimm", featuring Ham the Pig holding a book and standing at a table marked "Overdue Books" (where a very large man is sitting) with the caption "Conan the Librarian"]
[cut to a screengrab from the "Lipstick Librarian" website, featuring a young woman in a gown holding a book with the caption "The Lipstick Librarian!"]
[cut to a screengrab from the "Library Avengers" website, featuring a drawing of a young woman saying "Look it up!" ("Why you should fall to your Knees and worship a librarian ... ") with the caption "From librarianavengers dot org"]
["With acknowledgement" appears on screen, then cut to a screengrab of the TK421 "Librarians" photo gallery (www dot tk421 dot net slash photos slash v slash librarians)]
["This is the very ... very ... very ... end of a jumbo project" appears on screen, then cut to more footage of the elephants in the river]
["I hope you enjoyed it ... Shamblesguru" appears on screen]
["Please inform me of any copyright infringements" appears on screen]
Librarians as seen by the media
Created by Shamblesguru
Soundtrack: Granada Tropical
Artist: Roger Espinoza
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From tk421.net:
Librarian stereotypes in popular culture support the image of a librarian as a shushing school marm who does little more than stamp and shelve books. Maybe that's all you've seen librarians do. However, this perception is about as inaccurate as believing that Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is nothing more than a glorified bank teller.
The technology may change but the mission of the profession remains the same: organize information and help people find it. Libraries have been around a lot longer than the Internet, and provide answers to questions about almost anything. A library is sometimes much more useful for researching information than the Intenet.
Today librarians not only administer Web servers and dynamic databases to help manage large digital collections and thousands of electronic resources, they teach people how to use library systems. And the library profession not only is part of the Open Source and Open Access movements, but also has a long history of staunchly defending freedom - from book burnings to the FBI's Library Awareness Program to the latest privacy and copyright battles and almost all other current issues in intellectual freedom.
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