March of the Librarians

Didn't you wonder where your librarians disappeared to last January? Ten thousand of them were in Seattle for an American Library Association convention, and I was there to capture the bizarre congregation on video.

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• march
• librarians
• ala
• convention
• midwinter
• 2007
• seattle

[stellafowler]

I hope that you'll be around to shoot the ALA conference in DC this summer. A March of the Librarians II.

[nnnicck]

I wouldn't miss it!

[zenkonami]

Fabulous. Well put together. What was the music?

[nnnicck]

Thanks! I borrowed the music from March of the Penguins. If you listen at 3:05 you can hear penguins clucking in the background.

[kc55mo]

Perhaps I'm being too sensitive, but I wonder what about this congregation you found "bizarre"? -That there are 10,000 librarians who would go to Seattle? That we congregate for professional development?

[nnnicck]

I think most industry conventions are strange by their very nature, and librarian conventions are no exception. Every time I go to ALA, it's amazing and satisfying to see an entire city taken over by librarians. So it's not the fact of 10,000 librarians going to one city that's strange, but the experience of it is.

[rdavidon]

We are indeed an amazingly homogeneous group! One can only assume this is the result of some form of natural selection.

[fc007]

For a moment here, I thought I was watching National Geographics.

[jlanglai]

ah, librarians in seattle - so well done

[janusultor]

As far as "naughty librarians" are concerned, there is a group known as The Association of Bellydancing Librarians" or some such thing. Google it if you dare.

[bookworm1254]

How innovative is this view of the librarian's life, with wonderful camera work and marvelous narration. It is far more important a movie than March of the Penguins. If the penguin's habitat is fraught with danger, so is the librarian's: unreliable public access computers, budget cuts, and the worst enemy of all: patrons. (they always lie). Still, heaven will indeed be a library.

[Hengyst]

Marvelous seeing librarians in so important a stage of their life cycle! I kept looking for signs of environmental degradation destroying habitat, but perhaps librarians are adapting. I suspect a mutual ecological dependence between vendors and librarians must exist. I hardly ever see vendors around local librarian nesting sites, so there must be a balance. Are there any good Librarian Reserve locations?

[beatlenut1552]

Ahh yes the call of the wilds of Washington, DC. I got to network, learn, collect free stuff, but no mating...

[jewbilee2]

Came here after it was mentioned in The Washington Post. Fantastic!

[madamerotten]

This is marvelous.

[babiekitty321]

yes.....come to the dark side....we will teach you much but you have to be quiet!!