A library defiled
I never really liked this song before, but now that I’ve seen the video for “Every time we touch” (which takes place in a library in a sort of “hot for teacher” manner” I’m a fan. [thanks john13!]
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Hi. My name is Jessamyn West and I'll be your librarian today. I work in rural Vermont as a library technologist and am a community manager at MetaFilter.com. My personal blog is at jessamyn.com. This blog's twitter feed @librarian.net. Feel free to contact me if you have questions or comments.
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January 3rd, 2007 at 12:19
Did you notice the debate in the comments about whether or not the singer is “thick”? *rolls eyes*
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:05
I’ve never heard this song before today, but apparently it’s a big hit(?). It sounds like gay dance club music (nothing against gay dance club music). It just doesn’t do anything for me, even with the video set in a library.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:53
I like these sorts of things, this is great. Although I think my favorite music video set in a library still has to be Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5FUWRbixvI
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:52
Rowwwr, did you see that card catalog?!! Great video, and I actually liked the song already.
Next time management makes an annoying decision at work I’m going to start dancing on the circ desk and throwing hold slips around like confetti. Every library needs to break into song and dance now and then.
Thanks!
January 3rd, 2007 at 7:34
Does anyone know what library this was filmed in?
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:09
I was wondering that same thing.
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:57
There were loose card catalogue cards in one of tonight’s episodes of Beauty and the Geek, too. Who still has a card catalogue?
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:41
[...] > A library defiled” href=”http://www.librarian.net/stax/1937″>Jessamyn West and Sarah Houghton-Jan both point to the video for Cascada’s “Everytime We Touch” on YouTube which reverses the gender on the typical straightlaced-librarian-lets-her-hair-down cliché. At first I thought this was just kind of funny. [...]
January 4th, 2007 at 1:14
Funny, I posted that same link last week.
January 4th, 2007 at 11:52
This reminds me of my favorite scene in my favorite movie Party Girl. Mary (Parker Posey) is learning how to shelve and dances across a huge library table and then rolls around on a library cart. I wish my library was big enough to do this in. I also wish that my library cart would not fall to pieces if I did do it! The BEST library movie–EVER!
January 5th, 2007 at 3:18
As a cataloger, I’m appalled by the singer’s utter disregard for the Library of Congress card filing rules. Yet there’s a certain part of me that just can’t stay mad at her…
January 6th, 2007 at 9:42
Who still has card catalogs?
Many small, special libraries still have card catalogs. When I interned at the staff library in the Nat’l Aquarium in Baltimore, they still used a card catalog.