Monday, August 11, 2014

Case Study No. 1499: Staff of the Mooresville Public Library

Librarians Do Taio Cruz
3:40
This is a parody of the music video and song "Dynamite," by Taio Cruz (Mercury Records, 2010). "Dynamite" soundtrack by Karaoke Hitz (2010). New lyrics written by Suzanne Walker. Produced by Mooresville Public Library and City Dump Records (http://www.myspace.com/citydumprec). Video editor: Suzanne Walker. Vocalists: Meghan Adams, Lori Becker, Kate Meador, and Suzanne Walker. Creative team: Suzanne Walker, Jaymi Edwards, Meghan Adams, and Bill Buckley. Directed by Suzanne Walker and Jaymi Edwards. Featuring the staff and volunteers of Mooresville Public Library (Mooresville, Indiana) and the Freers and Jensens. Thanks to Baby Dax.

ERRATUM: Oops! We misspelled "Hermione Granger" in the video. Sorry about that! Will Harry Potter fans ever forgive us? Please and thank you. We appreciate your understanding.

Copyright (c) 2010 by Mooresville Public Library. All Rights Reserved. See credits for complete listings. Visit our website at http://www.mooresvillelib.org
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Mooresville Public Library
with City Dump Records
presents

A video about
getting your library card
(Go get it!)

[scene opens with three women entering the Mooresville Public Library and presenting their library cards, then cut to several shots of patrons and librarians reading in the library]
CHORUS: You need to read, read, read, read!
[cut to a female librarian singing into the microphone]
LIBRARIAN 1: It makes you smart! Yes, that's my creed, creed, creed, creed!
[cut to a group of young patrons feeding goats at a farm]
CHORUS: It's what your brain eats! That's it's feed, feed, feed, feed!
[cut to another female librarian (wearing a pink feather boa) sitting and her desk and singing to the camera]
LIBRARIAN 2: You'll be most likely to succeed, eed, eed, eed!
CHORUS: Yeah, yeah!
[cut to a woman wearing a cap and gown standing outside of the library]
CHORUS: We can help you graduate!
[cut to another female librarian standing in the library, holding a copy of the book "Inline Skating Superguides"]
CHORUS: Oh, we can help you rollerskate!
[cut to various shots inside the library]
CHORUS: We want you to get that library card! We say "Ay-oh! Get your card-o!" Just bring your ID in, it's not that hard! We say "Ay-oh! Get your card-o!"
[cut to several young patrons sitting at the computer terminals]
CHORUS: 'Cause you get access her to in-for-ma-tion!
[cut to another female librarian pointing to the drop-off books slot]
CHORUS: You can read those books!
[cut to still images from Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series]
CHORUS: "Eclipse" and "Twilight!"
[cut to a pair of young patrons using a laptop in the library]
CHORUS: You can get online, you can find answers!
[cut to several librarians dancing and singing into the microphone]
CHORUS: You can read all day, and into the night!
[cut to several people swaying their heads back and forth as they sit at their computer terminals in the library's meeting room]
CHORUS: Get on the net, net, net, net!
[cut to a female librarian sitting in the childrens' room with a little boy as people holding cut-out images from "Where the Wild Things Are" dance in the background]
CHORUS: Or bring your kid to story time, time, time, time!
[cut to a man standing in front of a projection screen showing a slide labelled "National Debt from 1940 to Present"]
CHORUS: Or research our national debt, debt, debt, debt!
[cut to several patrons standing outside the library]
CHORUS: Or read about Miss Brodie's prime, prime, prime, prime!
[cut to various shots inside the library]
CHORUS: Yeah, yeah!
[cut to three women laughing and slamming their library books on the table (as "Don't treat books this way" appears on screen)]
CHORUS: You can find a friendly face!
[cut to various shots inside the library]
CHORUS: We want you to get that library card! We say "Ay-oh! Get your card-o!" Just bring your ID in, it's not that hard! We say "Ay-oh! Get your card-o!"
[cut to a female librarian holding a pair of DVDs]
CHORUS: 'Cause we've got DVDs!
[cut to a male librarian (wearing sunglasses) holding a book]
CHORUS: And genealogy!
[cut to various shots inside the library]
CHORUS: You can read those books, "Tender is the Night!"
[cut to a still image from the Harry Potter movies]
CHORUS: Hermione Granger!
[cut to a female librarian having a "tea party" in the library]
CHORUS: And "Fancy Nancy," too!
[cut to two female librarians holding up CDs, then covering their faces with paper "Phantom of the Opera" masks]
CHORUS: Oh, and we've got CDs! "Music of the Night!"
[cut to two female librarians standing in front of a map marked "Evergreen Libraries - We're Growing!"]
LIBRARIAN 3: And we're on Evergreen, yeah!
LIBRARIAN 4: And you can use that card all over!
[cut to another female librarian (wearing a black feather boa) looking at a laptop with the library's homepage]
LIBRARIAN 5: Our website's on this screen, yeah! And we've got all these YouTube videos! 'Cause we want you ... we want you in our library!
[cut to three women reading books, as the one in the middle is reading a romance novel, causing the others to abandon their titles and read over her shoulder (one of them even undoes her bun and shakes her hair out)]
LIBRARIAN 5: [in voice over] We just want you here! We just want you here!
[cut to a closeup of a person's hand, as someone off camera hands her a library card]
CHORUS: We're gonna put that card in your hand! Cah-Cah-Card in your hand ... Cah-Cah-Card in your hand!
[cut to several photographs with a library card super-imposed in, then to various shots inside the library]
CHORUS: We want you to get that library card! We say "Ay-oh! Get your card-o!" Just bring your ID in, it's not that hard! We say "Ay-oh! Get your card-o!"
[cut to three women reading books in the library, as they cover their mouths with their hands]
CHORUS: 'Cause we've got Stephen King and Edgar Allan Poe!
[cut to several librarians dancing in the library]
CHORUS: You can read those books!
[cut to a still image from the Batman comic book]
CHORUS: Batman, the Dark Knight!
[cut to a female librarian pointing to the library homepage on her computer screen]
LIBRARIAN 6: We are on OverDrive, and we've got Book News!
CHORUS: And we'll do what it takes to get this card to you!
[cut to a closeup of a man picking a library card up off the counter, then smiling and running out of the library, before handing it to a librarian and giving the camera a thumbs up]

Mooresville Public Library
Mooresville, IN

Dynamite by Taio Cruz
2010 Mercury

Dynamite Karaoke Hitz 2010

Our lyrics by Suzanna Walker
Edited by Suzanne Walker

Vocals:
Meghan Adams
Lori Becker
Kate Meador
Suzanne Walker

Hermione Granger - Warner Bros.
Batman - DC Comics
Eclipse and Twilight - Little Brown
Historical Images - Mooresville Public Library

Creative Team:
Suzanne Walker
Bill Buckley
Jaymi Edwards
Meghan Adams

Special Thanks to:
City Dump Records (www dot myspace dot com slash citydumprec
Mooresville Public Library's Staff and Volunteers
The Freers and the Jensens and Baby Dax

To get your library card at the Mooresville Public Library, you must bring a current ID in showing your current address.
You must live in Brown Township.
See the library's website for more details
www dot mooresvillelib dot org

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