Emergency Librarian - Ep 1 "Trapped in the STACKS!"
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Emergency Librarians spring into action and save the day by rescuing an unwitting student stuck in perilous Compact Shelving.
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Pimpformation Productions presents
A Dag O'Bertie Film
Featuring:
Kristen Dietiker
Nancy Gershenfeld
Ray Henry
Blaine Hessee
Michelle Hudson
Dag O'Bertie
Marika Pineda
Beth Sanderson
Tim Shockley
Andy Szydlowski
Kathryn Whitenton
Intro Music - www.20dollarbeats.com
Incidental Music - psicotropicodelia .blogspot.com
Taxonomies - Archbishop Dagobert Tutu
Catering - Sea Cucumbers of Doom Anonymous (SCODA)
Psychotherapy - provided by iSchool GAs
No books were harmed in the making of this video.
OK, some were ...
... but who gives a flying f#$%^?
[scene opens with program director Dr. Brenda Hulingfeld speaking directly to the camera]
BRENDA: Y'know, library and information science education really has been focused in the years past on service, on the user, on the connection for people. But really, we live in an age of terrorism, and we live in an age of competition, and we had to really sit down and think about "How are we going to address the dangers and the threats to our national infrastructure in terms of information?" And we thought that the Emergency Librarian track really was the proper response. And really, the whole idea here is that you should feel safe with information, and that you should feel that information is working for you. And that, should you stray and forget to return a library book, or perhaps even think about razoring a page out of that rare book, you know there are repurcussions. You know the information Emergency Librarian will be there to protect others!
[cut to the interior of the Suzzallo Library (University of Washington), with the words "1346 Hours - Report of individual trapped in compact shelving" appearing on screen, as a student is trapped between two compact shelving units]
STUDENT: [weakly] Help ...
["1347 Hours - Individual begins hallucinating" appears on screen]
STUDENT: [weakly] Ah, they're comin' in, man! Help me, anybody ...
[cut to two female members of the Emergency Librarians team running up to a female librarian at the front desk]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Ma'am, we're responding to an emergency in the stacks! Can you direct us?
LIBRARIAN: [stone faced] When is your assignment due?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: [pause] This is not an assignment, ma'am.
LIBRARIAN: What class is this for?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Ma'am ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: This is very serious ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: This is an emergency.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: We're Emergency Librarians and we got called to this location ...
LIBRARIAN: Have you checked any databases yet?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Ma'am, we need to get to the stacks.
LIBRARIAN: Well, let me just make sure I know what part of the stacks you need to go to, because there's five different call number systems back there ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Government Publications stacks ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: [points to a sign reading "Government Publications"] Are those the stacks, ma'am?
LIBRARIAN: I'm warning you, you'll get lost if you go back there on your own ... Can I just verify what--
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Let's move!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Okay!
[they run off towards the stacks]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: [waving behind her] Thank you, ma'am!
LIBRARIAN: [looks into the camera and shrugs her shoulders]
[cut to the compact shelving units]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Emergency Librarians! We're here to help you, sir!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Sir, are you there?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: No, not there ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Sir?
[they see the student's hand sticking out]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Oh, I see him! I see him!
[they run over to the student]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Sir, it's gonna be okay! What happened here?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Sir, help is coming!
STUDENT: I was just enjoying the Documents of International Court of Justice, First Bilingual Edition ... And all the shelves just kept closing in on me, man!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Can, can you feel your fingers?
STUDENT: [weakly] No!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Oh, I think we need backup!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: We need to get somebody here right away!
[she speaks into her walkie talkie]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: This is Twenty One-Six, I need emergency backup! We need a supervisor and a technician, do you have one on the way?
[she turns to the other librarian]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: They're coming.
[cut back to the front desk, as two more female Emergency Librarians approach the same librarian from before]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Ma'am, ma'am ...
LIBRARIAN: Yes, can I help you?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Did some Emergency Librarians come this way?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Which direction did they go?
LIBRARIAN: I'm not sure I can tell you that. That's confidential ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Ma'am, time is of the essence! This is an emergency!
LIBRARIAN: We protect the privacy of our--
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: [points to the same sign] Are these the stacks?
LIBRARIAN: Can I ask what you plan to do with this information?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Are these the stacks?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Let's go, come on!
[they run off towards the stacks]
LIBRARIAN: [looks at the camera and shakes her head while smirking]
[cut back to the compact shelving]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Just stay with us!
STUDENT: Y'know, these books up top are looking pretty unstable ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: We know, we're going as fast as we can. Help is coming on the way.
[cut back to the front desk, as a male Emergency Librarian approaches]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Excuse me, is there somebody trapped down here? Is there, uh, were there Emergency Librarians--
[the librarian puts her finger to her lips]
LIBRARIAN: Shh ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: [quietly] I'm sorry ... Is there somebody trapped? Is there an emergency?
LIBRARIAN: [quietly] I'm not sure I can tell you that ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: [quietly] You can't tell me that? Why not?
[cut back to the compact shelving]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: What's your name, sir?
STUDENT: Sandy ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Sandy? Sandy what?
STUDENT: Dagobert.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Sandy Dagobert?
STUDENT: Uh ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Is there anybody we can call for you, sir? Backup's on the way.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Where is that backup? This is Twenty One-Six.
STUDENT: [weakly] Call my mom ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: We'll get you outta there soon, sir.
[the other Emergency Librarians arrive]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: We're here! Report, what's going on?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: It's looking pretty bad.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Alright, crisis response!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: We have a student stuck in the shelves.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: What's his name?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Sandy Dagobert.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Alright, secure the area!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Is there an emergency contact?
[cut back to the front desk]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: [quietly] Okay, something bad has happened here ...
LIBRARIAN: [quietly] How do you know?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: [quietly] I got a call ...
LIBRARIAN: [quietly] There's no cellphones allowed in the library.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: [quietly] This isn't a cellphone, it's a radio.
[cut back to the compact shelving, as they try to free the student]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: It's completely jammed.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Where's that technician?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: [talking into her radio] Twenty One-Six, dispatch. Where's that technician? We've got a fifteen here ...
[cut back to the front desk]
LIBRARIAN: [quietly] Yeah, my boyfriend brought me those flowers today, so I guess--
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: [quietly] You got a boyfriend?
[cut to the MGH Dispatch Center, as a female operator speaks into her headset]
OPERATOR: Twenty One-Six, I need an ETA to compact shelving.
[cut back to the front desk, as the Emergency Librarian gets the message over his earpiece]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Hold on ...
[he runs off towards the stacks]
LIBRARIAN: [waves goodbye]
[cut back to the compact shelving]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Secure this area!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: It's jammed!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Securing the area, got it!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Sandy, stay with us, okay? Just breathe.
STUDENT: The books are getting a little funky smelling ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: That's just the rabbit-skin glue, don't worry about it.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: You'll be fine.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: If you're exposed for less than thirty minutes, recovery is quick.
STUDENT: [weakly] Okay ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Deep breaths, Sandy.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: [from off camera] I need that technician!
[the male Emergency Librarian arrives]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Okay, I just got the call.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 2: Help is here, Sandy! Okay? Stay with us?
STUDENT: Alright ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Wadda we got?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: We've got a man trapped in the stacks. I need your expertise to get him out.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Okay ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 3: Everybody, clear the area!
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: You doing okay, sir? You doing okay?
STUDENT: I think so ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Alright, just stay calm. We'll, uh ...
[he walks over to the turning mechanism]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Wadda we got here? Is this, is this jammed?
STUDENT: [weakly] I'm losing feeling in my fingers ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Holy cow, yeah ... Alright, just stay calm, sir.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: It'll be okay, Sandy ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Could somebody hold this thing?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Yeah.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Okay, uh ...
STUDENT: There are some unstable books above my head ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Yeah, that's not good.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Okay, don't look up.
STUDENT: Okay.
[the Emergency Librarian takes some tools out]
STUDENT: Visions of government publications running through my head ...
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Yeah, you're gonna be okay, sir. We'll get that outta your head shortly.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Documents can't hurt you.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Yeah, yeah. You're gonna be fine ... Okay, I see the damage here.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: You got it?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Uh, hold on.
[he turns something]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Okay, I think that was it.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Okay, Sandy.
STUDENT: [weakly] Yeah?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Okay.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: We're gonna open it up--
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Can we get some other help in here? I think this load shifted. The shelves are caving in.
[the other Emergency Librarians come over and brace the shelves]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Okay sir, slowly.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: You gonna help him out?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Yup.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Alright, I'm gonna ... okay.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Alright, on the count of three.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Moving it away ...
[he turns the lever]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: One two three.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Watch his hand ... Okay. Okay.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Okay. We have you, sir ... Step out slowly.
[the shelves move, and the student is able to slowly get out]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Okay.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: How are you doing, sir?
[the student's legs start to wobble]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: Can we get a seat for this man? A seat!
[he sits down]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: Don't worry, sir. Happens all the time.
STUDENT: Oh ... Are you guys trained librarians?
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: We are.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 4: We're the emergency response team.
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: It's good to see you're okay.
[he shakes the student's hand]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Let's check your eyes ... Yeah, he looks good.
[he addresses the other Emergency Librarians]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 5: Alright, I think we're good here. You can pull the tape down. Let's uh, let's get him outta here.
[one of the Emergency Librarians turns and speaks directly to the camera]
EMERGENCY LIBRARIAN 1: We're glad he's okay. When responding to these crisis situations, we never know. We could be looking at the worst.
Special Thanks:
Prof. Nancy Gershenfeld
Prof. Michael Eisenberg
Nancy Pearl
Grace Whiteaker
Marie Potter
More Special Thanks:
Unshelved.Com
Emergency Librarian (the band)
The UW Libraries
Shultzy's Sausage
The iSchool OSAS Office
The Seattle Public Library Mobile Services
No graduate students were harmed in the making of this video ...
... except for:
Jennifer
Ray
Alex
Meghan
etc.
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From facebook.com:
In a universe where libraries are threatened, and a way of life is under attack ...
Where the cries of help elevate above a loud whisper, and subject headings have lost all meaning ...
Where information needs a hero, there is a force to respond to any urgent information need ...
To provide a stern "Shhh!" to the forces of evil, and to enforce controlled vocabularies of justice, and protect information everywhere.
Now, more than ever, this universe needs ... the Emergency Librarian!
Coming Soon.
"Keeping Information Safe."
Summer 2008.
Music courtesy of Emergency Librarian the Band
http://www.myspace.com/ emergencylibrarianmusic
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From pbworks.com:
Topics at InfoCamp Seattle 2008
Emergency Librarians: Librarians as Heroic Action Figure
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