Library Aficionado

"Surrounded by stories Surreal and sublime, I fell in love in the library," sings Jimmy Buffett, and apparently he's not the only one. The site indexes and provides lyrics where possible to songs about libraries and librarians from groups like Manic Street Preachers, Green Day, Shriekback, Grrlscouts, and more. Bonus: songs about books and reading.

Rooting for the Shy Librarian by Carla Kihlstedt on her CD, Two Foot Yard (2003)

Track 4 Rooting for...

Track 4: Rooting for the Shy Librarian (2:23)

Sorry, I tried to get the hyperlink to display properly, but the wiki got confused by the commas, so you'll have to copy and paste. -Ingbert

FYI: It's not the commas, it's because the editor inserted a line break in the middle of the link text. If there's a place to add this to the wiki docs, someone should do that and remove the commentary from here. -Dan

Cursor Miner's "Library"

A Flash fave--you'll be singing the tune for weeks---

http://www.cheekybeef.co.uk/library.html

"Public Library", album by Jonathan Rundman

http://www.jonathanrundman.com/album_new.html

Contains the song "Librarian":

"When I was just a baby, before I could speak
I would line up all my letter blocks alphabetically
and now itÃ¢Â€Â™s my vocation and my passion to assign
every decimal-numbered shelf to every decimal-numbered spine

IÃ¢Â€Â™m a librarian, IÃ¢Â€Â™m a librarian
and I like it quiet so the pages can be heard
IÃ¢Â€Â™m a librarian, IÃ¢Â€Â™m a librarian
and I do it for the love of the word" <SNIP>

For rest of the lyrics, visit http://www.jonathanrundman.com/lyrics_pl.html

Librarian by Haunted Love

For their music video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne_WXP7lUWM

[edit] Videos of Various Sorts

Prankstgrup Musical

http://www.prangstgrup.com/lm/lm.htm

The World's Fastest Librarian

The March of the Librarians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td922l0NoDQ&NR

1987 - Betty Glover Library Workout Tape Ad

For something that seems never to have been intended to be on the internet, wow!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8BKX2eQ0Q&NR

Librarian - Haunted Love

Music video from Haunted Love:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne_WXP7lUWM

[edit] Books

Well, there's the Librarian Related Fiction section in the LIS Library, but there's not much on the web about it:

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/lsx/usersguide.html#Fiction

In the July 2005 Issue of the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction there is a fantasy story about a librarian. It's nothing profound, but it is a fun read. "Old as Books" by Mike Shultz page 118.

[edit] Comic Books

http://www.comicreaders.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1540

Rex Libris, a new comic book about a librarian sounds fun.

With the innovation of the teleportation crystal in 1921 by Litteratus Magi Rex Libris, a whole new era in lending opened up: interstellar book loans became possible. By 1960, over ten thousand volumes of extraterrestrial origin had been collected and stored at the Middleton Book Repository, a ceramic encased bunker deep beneath the Middleton Public Library. It remains one of the most important reference collections of xenognomic material, and is often used by the Pentagon during alien invasions. Middleton library staff, led by Head Librarian Rex Libris, used information from the interstellar collection to repel an attack by the malevolent Sl'uklu'uhk (hideous, giant space molluscs from beyond Pluto) in 1967, although little information on this event has ever been released to the public.

- Richard Urban

[edit] Movies

Party Girl (1995)
- Starring Parker Posey
- Directed by Daisy von Scherler Mayer
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114095/

Desk Set (1957)
- Spencer Tracy, Katherine Hepburn, and punch cards!
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307/

The Name of the Rose (1986)
- Starring Sean Connery and Christian Slater
- Based on the book (1980) by Umberto Eco
- Set at a remove Italian Abbey in the 14th century; this murder mystery has a library filled with secrets and a book that kills...
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091605/

The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (2004)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412915/
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)
- http://www.tnt.tv/title/?oid=621690

Over Her Dead Body (2006)
- http://marklindner.info/blog/2006/08/20/over-her-dead-body-another-movie-with-a-librarian/
- See above link for details and acquisition information.

[edit] Drinking

[edit] Drinking Games

From Drinking GSLIS:

Two links in the spirit of drinking_gslis:

The Library Conference Attendance Drinking Game http://www.keef.net/jill/index.php/jill/one_more_for_the_road/

ALA Council: The Drinking Game http://rochellejustrochelle.typepad.com/copilot/2005/01/ala_council_the.html

Note: There are some more departmentally specific games available on the message archive at Yahoo! Groups.

[edit] Pickup Lines

"Corny Library Pickup Lines, and How Librarians Effectively Shoot Them Down"

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/librarian/14pickuplines.html

"The LISNews Librarian Pickup Lines"

http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20030221000144

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] 11AM Lest the Keepers of the Books Wreak a Terrible Vengeance

Homeless guy #1: Damn! I just got kicked out of the library! Damn!
Homeless guy #2: What did you do, man?
Homeless guy #1: I don't know. I don't know.
Homeless guy #2: Aren't you drunk?
Homeless guy #1: Well, yeah. Also, I might have been looking at dirty pictures on the computer.
Homeless guy #2: Aw, that's not so bad.
Homeless guy #1: And they said that I was being disrespectful to the librarians.
Homeless guy #2, freaking out: No way, man! You can never, never disrespect the librarians! Always respect librarians! What were you thinking? Are you an idiot?