Case Study No. 1138: "Librarians, their ways and means of living"

Librarians: Their Ways and Means of Living (ver. 2)
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Librarians and ants ... both social creatures. Librarians gather at ALA in Washington, DC, June 2007
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Added: 6 years ago
From: MartinKalfatovic
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[scene opens with a closeup of the cover to "Insects: Their Ways and Means of Living" by Robert Evans Snodgrass]
[cut to a photograph from the 2007 ALA Conference in Washington, DC]

Librarians
Their Ways and Means of Living
v. 2.0

The American Library Association
Washington, DC / June 2007

2007

[cut to overhead footage of librarians walking around the Washington Convention Center]
[cut to black and white stock footage of ants crawling around their colony]
[cut to more overhead footage of librarians walking around the convention center]
[cut to more stock footage of ants, as an old-time narrator discusses what is happening]
NARRATOR: Busy workers make a highway from the nest to their objective, and soldiers protect them along the way. When the objective is the human home, ants are a pest.
[cut to more stock footage of ants crawling around a house]
NARRATOR: No wall is too steep or too high. Even the smallest crack or opening is large enough to allow ants to enter homes. Through the doors and in the windows they come. It is the never-ending search for food that makes ants such a pest to man.
[cut to more overhead footage of librarians walking around the convention center]

The End

Goodbye Mrs. Ant
(Prelinger Archives)

Final March 2
(calpomatt)

Ant City
(Prelinger Archives)

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From si.edu:

Martin Kalfatovic is Assistant Director of the Libraries' Digital Services Division responsible for the active digital library program. This program includes the creation of digital editions of library materials, online exhibitions, and new digital publications. Martin serves as the coordinator for the Libraries' participation in the Biodiversity Heritage Library working with an international consortium of natural history and botanical libraries in the digitization of taxonomic literature.

He is a regular speaker at conferences and professional meetings on the topics of library technology, digitization, digital libraries, and online exhibitions. Martin is an active member of the library community having served as the editor of Technology Electronic Reviews, the Library and Information Technology Association Newsletter (LITA), the webmaster for LITA, and as an adjunct faculty member of the School of Library and Information Science at The Catholic University in America teaching courses in library technology and art and museum librarianship.

Kalfatovic holds an M.S.L.S, from the School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America as well as a B.A. from The Catholic University of America.