Case Study No. 0424: Staff of the Ann Arbor Public Library

Hayden Christensen at the Ann Arbor Public Library
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[young David Rice has jumped into the frozen lake to retrive Millie's snowglobe, and it seems inevitable that he will drown, except that he suddenly "jumps" from the bottom of the lake to the floor of the Ann Arbor Public Library]
[cut to a closeup of David on the floor coughing and gasping for breath, as he is soaking wet and covered with books that have fallen from the two bookshelves on either side of him]
[cut to a wide-angle shot of David in the stacks, as librarians and patrons gather and stare at this strange young man who appeared out of nowhere ... along with several gallons of water which have soaked the rug and the adjacent shelves alike]
[cut to another closeup of David as he looks around in confusion, then opens one of the books on the floor, seeing the "Ann Arbor Public Library" due date slip]
[as the librarians and patrons continue to stare, he awkwardly gets up and walks out of the library]
DAVID: [in voice over] And that's how it happened the first time.
[the female librarian at the front desk stares at him, as the camera zooms in and shows that he's still carrying the snowglobe in his right hand]
DAVID: [in voice over] One second I'm a goner, the next thing I know I'm at the Ann Arbor Public Library ...
[cut to David getting off the bus and heading back home]
DAVID: [in voice over] Home, sweet home. Mom left when I was five. As for Dad, well ... let's just say he wasn't much of one.
[cut to David opening the front door, as his father William is sitting in the living room watching television]
WILLIAM: You're late. Supper's cold ... Where you been, anyway?
[David just tries to walk to his room without saying anything, so his father gets up out of the chair]
WILLIAM: Damn, you know when I ask a question, I expect an answer, okay?
[he notices that David is still soaking wet]
WILLIAM: Hey hey hey ... What happened to you?
DAVID: Kids at school ...
[he runs upstairs, as William yells after him]
WILLIAM: Hey, David! Get back down here, get a mop, and clean this crap up right now!
[David runs into his room and locks the door behind him]
WILLIAM: [from off camera] David! Don't make me come up there!
[cut to William as he gets upstairs and starts pounding on the door]
WILLIAM: David? Make the right choice! David! David, open the door!
[he kicks the door open, but David has teleported again, as William looks around in confusion before leaving]
[cut to David, who finds himself in the exact same spot in the library as before, only now it is after hours]
DAVID: [whispers] Did I just teleport?
[he looks around in the darkness and sees a poster on the wall which reads "Escape to Your Library", then sighs]
DAVID: Great ... I can teleport to the library.
[camera zooms out to show that this section of the library stacks has been roped off, with several handwritten signs warning about water damage to the books]
[cut back to David, as he sees that the library has been locked up for the night ... he bangs the metal bars in frustration, then suddenly teleports back into his bedroom]

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From scotsman.com:

JUMPER
Director: Doug Liman
Running time: 88 minutes

THE film starts with a voiceover, in which teenager David Rice (Max Thieriot) is explaining his special gift. "Once I was a normal person," he says, "a chump, just like you." The action flashes back to the moment in David's adolescence when he first began to throw off the shackles of chumphood. He is being taunted by a bully, who throws the Eiffel Tower snowglobe he has bought for his prospective girlfriend on to a frozen lake.

Undeterred by the danger of the situation, the weed David ventures on to the ice, before suddenly disappearing from view. Ordinarily, he would drown. Instead, his panic propels him to safety. "One second I'm a goner," he reports, "next thing I know I'm at the Ann Arbor public library."

David is a Jumper. He can teleport himself around the world at will, escaping from difficult situations and travelling to the Wonders of the World while still being home for his tea. His first journey is to travel away from his alcoholic abusive dad, to New York, where he hones his jumping skills in Central Park. At first, his control is erratic and he collides with trees.

Soon enough, he is shamelessly exploiting his talent. He robs banks, and keeps a yuppie apartment with an ornamental motorbike and a pillar box in the lounge. He drops into London, arriving on the clockface of Big Ben. He goes surfing in Fiji. He has a sandwich on top of a Sphinx. If his choices seem slightly clichéd – and oddly similar to the vacation enjoyed by Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman in The Bucket List – it's because he can only jump to places he has seen a picture of. Hence, he tends to turn up at picture-postcard locations.

Eight years go by, and David is now played by Hayden Christensen. He is being pursued by Roland (Samuel L Jackson, with scary white hair) who is a Paladin.

Viewers with memories of Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade will be excused a smile at this point, but Roland is not a brass lamp with an attitude problem. He is a scary policeman of the jumping world. When he catches a Jumper – a process which involves a kind of Taser/twiddling stick and high voltage cables – he stabs them to death, "because only God should have the power to be in all places at all times".

That's pretty much as deep as it gets. In place of nuance, Liman (the director of Swingers, whose stewardship of The Bourne Identity propelled him into action movies) opts for special effects, a chase, and a buddy routine with a more experienced Jumper, whose misfortune it is to be called Griffin (Jamie Bell).

There is a girl, Millie (Rachel Bilson), who gets to be girlish in Rome while the boys joyride round Tokyo in a stolen Mercedes, or accidentally teleport into a Chechen battlefield.

Griffin, at least, has some imagination. David seems trapped in an adolescent fantasy which struggles to approach the complexity of a comic book.

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From ew.com:

JUMPER (2008)

Wet books smell gross, so I don't envy the poor librarian who will have to clean up the flood that David Rice (Hayden Christensen) brings into the library stacks. Although he could be forgiven because it's kind of hard to be thoughtful when a) you're drowning in a frozen lake, and b) you don't even yet realize that you can teleport.

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From wikia.com:

Ann Arbor is the home town of the Rice family and Millie.

Ann Arbor is first seen when David is in a class at Huron High School staring at Millie. David walks out onto Gallup Park Pond where he falls through and which he teleports to the Ann Arbor Library. David's house is a medium sized home located in Ann Arbor. It is assumed that David has lived here his whole life. After the Roland confrontation at David's apartment, David grabs large amounts of cash and teleports to his old bedroom in Ann Arbor.

The next day David tries to confront his dad in Ann Arbor, but decides not to. He later then goes to Millie's old house to find she works at a bar located at the local College.

The next Ann Arbor scene is when David finds Millie and shows her his power. After that, Ann Arbor is shown when Roland has Millie captured. David manages to teleport a quarter of the building into an unknown river then teleports the building again into the Ann Arbor library, this is the last scene with Ann Arbor.

Case Study No. 0423: The Archivist (Diablo 3)

Diablo 3 Archivist April Fool 2009
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New Character Class released: Archivist
April Fool 2009 for D3

have fun :)

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http://www.blizzard.com/ diablo3/ characters/ archivist.xml
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From diablowiki.net:

The Archivist is the newest class to be introduced to Diablo 3. The Archivist is a ferocious loremaster and librarian, Having unlimited knowledge of books, and all the secrets withing them, Constantly seeking to prove once and for all that the Pen is mightier than the sword. Hailing from the Darkened Studies of Westmarch, this frail man is a force to be reckoned with.

Please note! This class is part of Blizzard's April Fool's event 2009, and is not a "real" class.

Character Introduction

He is meant to expand on the character of Deckard Cain, and will be able to Stay awhile and listen. Abd al-Hazir Has written about archivists in his series as his 41st entry:

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In my writings, I have recounted stories of the barbarians and their endless battles with the demons of the frozen north, and devoted pages to the wizards of Caldeum who harness the primal forces of reality. But the might of these heroes is nothing compared to the power of the archivists of Westmarch. These brave souls wade into battle wielding tome and quill, armored not in ensorcelled plate or links of chain, but in the knowledge of generations past. These archivists fight not only for our future, but for our past as well.

I first encountered an archivist in the ruins of the great city of Travincal. While exploring one of the long-abandoned temples, I was drawn by the flickering of faint torchlight through a distant doorway, and then, as I crept nearer, by the sound of a voice. There was a feeling in the air of danger near at hand, an electricity that made the hairs on my neck rise. I inched forward, breath caught in my throat, grateful for the safety of the hallway's long shadows. Then I saw him.

He was surrounded, the looming shapes of his foes bearing down upon him. His hair was unkempt and frazzled, his calloused hands cut and stained. But he had an air of supreme confidence, of a submerged violence that threatened to explode into being. He leapt forward, his hands grabbing for the leather bindings of his nearest enemy.

The archivist's eyes searched for an opening, a weakness. His hands wrenched suddenly about his adversary and a sickening crack pierced the still air. Its spine broken, the book lay unmoving in the archivist's now gentle grip. As he lifted its lifeless form into the dim light, the pages of the ancient tome fell open, the secrets of the text laid bare. I remember the words he read, the religious fervor of his voice: "Here begins the first chronicle of the life of holy Akarat, prophet of Zakarum...." And on the shelves that stood all around him, tome after tome waited.

I have the utmost respect for the archivists, these warriors of myth and legend. We know their names: Alimet Two Quills, master of illumination with both left and right hand; Morienne the Scrivener, a midwife whose poetry stole the hearts of kings and brought tyrants to tears; and Salazar Cid, the Master Transcriber of Gea Kul, whose bombastic penmanship is known in all the lands of the Twin Seas and beyond. But these are only a chosen few. The members of their honored fraternity are many, and their numbers grow every day.

In the dark days that I fear are yet to come, much will be decided by sword and axe, with steel and spell, but I believe that in scroll and tome our survival lies.
***

Archivist Skills

Four skills were revealed along with the Archivist character. There are screenshots and videos for all of the skills; click to the specific pages for more coverage. Below is a short description of each.

* Book Vision: Makes tome on screen glow a golden color. Just because.
* Lorenado: A Tornado of books ripple out from the Archivist, ripping apart anything it strikes.
* Quest Bolt: Fires a golden exclamation mark projectile. Enemies hit by the Quest Bolt are frozen with the "!" remaining over their heads.
* Shush: The Archivist's most powerful spell, this one silences and destroys every monster on the screen. Sadly, it also causes the Archivist to explode an instant later.

Role in the game

Bashiok has announced the role of the Archivist as well as explain the Archivist's Unique "Radial Dialogue Tree" in the game by posting in the forums:

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We're really excited to finally announce the Archivist!

His design stems from you guys, the players, so it's really about "fan service" if you will. At BlizzCon and WWI we were receiving question after question "Can we play as Deckard Cain?" and "Please let me play as Deckard Cain" and "Deckard Cain should be a playable class" and on and on. So we thought, obviously we can't have you play as Cain, he's an important part of the story already, but what if we take the essence that is Cain... 'eau de Deckard'... and make a new type of character class. And we're really proud to be able to offer a first glimpse to you today, and say thank you for your loyal support.

He has a much stronger focus on lore, learning, research, and knowledge. He's obviously quite frail but he does carry some interesting spells into battle. All of his spells, as well as discussion with NPCs is carried out through the Radial Dialogue Tree, which is one of the major game systems we've been hinting at for a while now. It allows the archivist unprecedented control over his spells, as well as the inflection of his speech, body language, grammar, and cantankerousness which all figure in to a successful conversation. It's an amazing new system that no one has tried before, and really sets Diablo III apart as the premiere action-RPG of this lifetime.

* Is there a way to prevent dying at the end of Shush? Also, are you going to include new element - paper damage?

Shush has been extremely controversial internally, we weren't actually going to show it off because it's still so early in design, but we felt it was an important enough part of the class to give an idea of the direction the skills are heading.

It's a powerful spell. Bottom line. You can see it in the video, it causes terrible, terrible damage to anyone within view of the archivist. To balance it, after Shush has ended, you explode. You do have a few seconds to continue playing though before exploding, and that can be extended with skill points. Also any creatures killed by shush will only drop health globes. It may seem a bit harsh but I've been playing and using it for a while now, and I can say plays out really well and it's a lot of fun.

* I don't think it gives enough spell control. As you can see on the bottom of the radial diologue screenshot, it's at page 3/7, and having to click through said pages would take too much time.

The arrow keys on the keyboard can be used to swap through pages quickly, and we're thinking right now about allowing some type of alt+scroll wheel option to also quickly flip through pages but that hasn't been implemented yet so don't quote me on it.

A lot of the radial dialogue menu is about learning. Much like a new language or musical instrument, it takes time to train your brain and motor reflexes to hit the correct pronunciation/note/etc. Once you learn the 'language' of the radial dialogue menu, much of spell casting becomes second nature.

For instance, to begin casting a spell you choose page 1 option "Let's begin...", this activates the spell casting sequence. Then throughout each page you'll have multiple spell options. Since we've shown off Lorenado let's go with that one. To select Lorenado as your spell cast you then move to page 4, and select "Fetch me my shawl!" which begins the spell cast. Then you select four additional options that determine the spell length, distance, strength, and effect, from the over three hundred potential options throughout the radial selection screens (potentially expanded through item drops), and finally you finish the spell cast by going back to page 1 and choosing "Let's go." So it's really an intuitive and easy process, not to mention powerful!, once you memorize the options on each page.

* Quest Bolt: I wonder if this is how random quests are implemented. If so, then everyone will want an Archivist in their party so that they can quickly look for the best quests to do...

Obviously it's an early implementation, but again we wanted to show the general direction and flow of the archivist skills.

The design of the quest bolt skill as it is now, when you cast quest bolt at an enemy the enemy stops and becomes a quest giver (hopefully that was obvious from the video :P). You can then talk to them, and based on a few factors like their race, creature type, and gender, they have a pool of randomized quests you can accept from them.

Once a creature becomes a quest giver, it can't be killed by anyone in your party. As the quests are based around the archivist, he's the only one that can accept the quests. The quests generally don't offer material rewards, but instead give the archivist and player what the class is all about, and that's learning. You'll get far more insight into the world and past of Sanctuary than anyone else, but of course the trade off is being ill-equipped to fight or defend yourself very well.

* While gazing upon screenshots of this new class I noticed a brain floating in water where the mana orb is located. Is this an updated version of the mana orb, or is this by chance new system, such as the barbarian's fury system?

That's the archivist's resource system, currently (and lovingly) referred to as Knowledge. It's used for most actions, same as mana or fury, and is replenished by researching the scrolls and tomes that lay around the world. One way to make this easier on the player is through the use of Book Vision, which highlights all available Knowledge resources in the area.
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Behind the Scenes Information

More than a year after the Archivist was revealed, Blizzard added some additional information about the joke via their Facebook page:

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Remember the Archivist? One of our 2009 April Fool's jokes as a new character class in Diablo III. Some things you may not know about this joke ...

It's journal entry "0041" or 4/1, also known as April 1st.
The Archivist was originally called The Lorekeeper.
In the "Shush" skill video a piece of wood falls right as the Archivist explodes, but it wasn't a planned part of the explosion.
The original concept of the joke was to create a Deckard Cain class, a frail old man more concerned with reading books than fighting, and so the existing Deckard Cain model was used for all of the website assets. Including an animated version sporting dyed hair and an eyepatch.
***

Case Study No. 0422: Staff of the R.B. House Undergraduate Library

UNC Chapel Hill UL Flash Mob Rave
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*** MOST RECENT UNC LIBRARY RAVE VIDEO***
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=pE0-BFEermc

On Dec. 9th, 2008 in order to break up the stresses of fall semester exam week, UNC students flash raved their Undergraduate Library. Without warning to those that were unaware, hundreds of students packed the library lobby and brought it hardcore for over 8 minutes.



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Video filmed and edited by: Walker Sigmon
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[scene opens with footage of the nearly empty undergraduate library at UNC Chapel Hill, as Darude's "Sandstorm" plays over the video]
["On December 9th, 2008 in order to break up the stresses of exam week, hundreds of UNC students descended on the Undergraduate Library in a flashmob rave" appears on screen]
[cut to the front hallway of the library (as a young female librarian sits and casually reads a book at the front desk)]
["11:00 PM" appears on screen, as the library is still empty, then cut to an overhead shot the same hallway filled with students jumping and screaming and waving glow sticks as the librarian looks at the scene in exasperation (another female librarian is standing alongside her and covering her ears)]
[the camera zooms in on a female student crowd-surfing]
[cut to another female librarian standing behind the front desk, as the camera zooms in on her with hands on her hips, shaking her head (and with just a hint of a smile on her face)]
[cut to another overhead shot of the hallway, as more students begin crowd-surfing]
[the scene fades to black, then cut to slow-motion footage of the flash mob going strong]
[cut to some students climbing on top of the help desk (as one librarian tries to move some books before they get trampled) and dancing]
[cut to a closeup shot of a library security guard standing behind the help desk, as he can only smile and walk away]
[cut to footage of students on the upper level watching the flash mob and taking pictures]
[cut to another shot of the flash mob, as some students passing around a garbage can (making it "crowd-surf")]
[cut to more footage of the students laughing and dancing]
["Can't end it without a little school spirit ... " appears on screen, then cut to the students (loudly) singing the school fight song while stomping their feet and clapping their hands]

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From newsobserver.com:

The brains behind UNC's Flash Dance Party

File this under "Those Crazy College Kids."

Just before midnight Tuesday, a dance party broke out at the undergraduate library at UNC Chapel Hill. You may have seen the video. It's gotten quite a lot of buzz this week.
I spoke with Bobby Nieland, one of the masterminds of this crazy event. Here's what he had to say:

News & Observer: So where did this idea come from?

Bobby Nieland: On Halloween a similar event occurred. A group of guys got a Facebook thing together. They had everyone just freeze what they were doing in the Pit here at UNC right at noon. Everyone just froze, wherever they were. There''s this website called "Improve Everywhere" that was the inspiration for it. Everyone did that on Halloween. So our Bell Tower here on campus tolls 12 times at noon, so everyone froze for that and then continued on doing what they were doing.

N&O: So you take idea, and then push it forward for the dance party?

BN: Yes, in the Undergraduate Library, or the UL, we like to call it, every year since 1970, on the day before finals start a group of streakers run through the library. That was a big inspiration for us. That happened Thursday last week. So me and my two buddies were sitting in the UL last Tuesday (the week prior) and quite spontaneously decided to see if we could organize a flash dance in the Undergraduate Library.

So we decided the easiest way to reach a bunch of people is Facebook these days. So I created a Facebook event. All three of us became administrators of the event and invited everyone we knew at UNC. In the first 48 hours we have right around 400 people confirmed to come to the event.
In total, we reached 2600 people.

N&O: So that's how many took part?

BN: A ballpark guess that a lot of people have given us is that about 700 people were there. The place was packed.

N&O: So how much specific planning was done for it?

BN: Well, the description for the event was about a page long, the directions to everybody. In essence it was just this: At 11:55 p.m. on Tuesday we wanted everyone, wherever they were at the library to stop what they're doing. We'd start the music at 11:55. They'd just stop what they're doing. They know about this but they'd pretend they didn't know. And then we'd have a flash dance. We'd all just dance in the lobby. One of our other friends is a DJ. He mixed a track together for us that's about 13 minutes long. It's six songs spliced together.

N&O: So this was a 13-minute event?

BN: Well, it went about 9 minutes and then we pulled the plug. We didn't want it to get out of hand. That was more crowd-surfing that I've ever seen at an event.

N&O: Is the library usually that busy that night during finals?

BN: No, it is not. The whole idea of the event to look natural was ruined a little because at about 11:15, groups of four and five students started coming in and the noise level kept increasing. By 11:45 people were just streaming in. We told people to go into side rooms and stay clear of the lobby.

N&O: What did you use for a sound system? It seemed quite loud on the video.

BN: We brought in, earlier that day, a 120-watt amp.

N&O: Did you hide it?

BN: We just walked through the front doors, went over to the computers and put it down on the floor and sat started studying and nobody came over.

N&O: Why a dance?

BN: There's just something about having fun and being loud in a library. There's just something about that. Obviously it's sort of taboo.

N&O: You feel like an outlaw a little bit?

BN: Sure. We were very nervous and very excited. There was adrenaline.

N&O: So does this go high up on your resume?

BN: Yeah, this is one of the most random things I've ever done.

N&O: Is there some satisfaction in pulling this off?

BN: It's definitely empowering. It's amazing to know how many people you can reach via Facebook. It's just been the talk of campus for the past couple of days. Me and my two other buddies have gotten so many congratulations and pats on the back. There's so much video of it.

N&O: So what's your next stunt?

BN: We had a blast organizing this one. There's always the end of the year. We'll see. We've gotten a lot of comments that this should be a tradition.

Case Study No. 0421: Fiona Sweeney and Mr. Abasi

Masha Speaks 1
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Masha Hamilton, author of The Camel Bookmobile, addresses the ABOS Conference. Visit her website http://www. mashahamilton.com/ index.php
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Added: 3 years ago
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Siti, the leader and load camel, seemed to grasp from the beginning that she held the balance of power. First she forced a late start to the journey with her capricious shifts of weight that stunted the men's effort to pack her with books. Mr. Abasi, grumbling about the wasted time as they set off, thought he spotted victory in her eyes, though he quickly told himself he had imagined it. Then, ninety minutes into the trip, Siti glanced back at him, blinked her long eyelashes, sighed loudly, and plopped to the lunarlike desert floor. She tossed her head jauntily, exhibiting the yellowed teeth that jutted from her lower jaw.

At that moment, Mr. Abasi knew for sure what no one else could: Siti was possessed by the spirit of his own departed mother. When he looked closely, he even saw his mother's particular mulish expression reflected in the camel's stubborn gaze. A woman of aggressively colorful dress, his mother had been renowned for her strident refusal to be chained to household chores, as well as for her loud complaints that her husband, responsible for the happiness of three wives, failed to visit her as often as contractually required. She'd been, of course, three times the size of that husband. Her hugs had, more than once, nearly suffocated her slight only son. "I am a woman who must be embraced in full," she used to proclaim to anyone who would listen. "My expanses must be traversed like the land itself."

A full embarrassment, that's what she was. But frighteningly powerful. He'd never been able to completely accept that a mosquito caused her death. She'd seemed too substantial to be threatened by a mbu, even one carrying onyong-nyong fever - so it wasn't a total surprise to find her reincarnated now.

[...]

It was his words, Mr. Abasi knew, and not the driver's lashing, that prompted Siti to rise at last and resume the lead, trailed by a second camel carrying Mr. Abasi, a third carrying Miss Sweeney, and a fourth carrying supplies. But the delay had been too long. With such a lackadaisical pace and so many distractions, they were lucky they hadn't encountered any shifta. The bandits, with rows of shiny gold bullets slung around their hips, would surely have killed this willful white American woman. What, then, would be the fate of Mr. Abasi?

Of course, what sort of fate was this, anyway? Since Mr. Abasi's boyhood, his dream of an ideal job was one he could do in the shade that required as little physical exertion as possible and even less human interaction. What joy when the foreign librarian, Miss Fetegrin, had visited from London looking for a worthwhile scholarship recipient, and he had been chosen, and thus discovered there actually existed work that would meet his requirements. Some shelving was necessary, of course. But the library's unambiguous rules against talking more than compensated for that light lifting.

Now, though, they'd changed his job requirements. They'd forced him to travel beneath the unforgiving sun four times a week on these exhausting excursions across a terrain naked except for the occasional thornbush or acacia. And why? Because foreigners with fervor in their hearts decided all children must be educated. Educated! The misconception buried in the word set his teeth to grinding. These foreigners couldn't understand that literacy was not the only path to education. In tribal settlements, the tradition was an oral one, bolstered by the evolutionary development of powerful memories, supported by a web of ritual and respect that books would not reinforce - could, in fact, destroy.

Besides, these simple people were at peace with themselves. Wasn't that a kind of wisdom? A little rain, a bowl of maize, and they were happy. They didn't desire objects outside their reach. This bookmobile project, overseen by the Kenya National Library Service with Miss Sweeney as "visiting consultant," bred envy of an unobtainable life. Some suitable books were to be found among the donations, of course. But what were a dusty desert people to make of a movie star's biography? A do-it-yourself book for landscapers? A children's picture book about medieval castles? Their inclusion highlighted Western idealists' underbelly of ignorance, and even arrogance.

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From amazon.com:

"The Camel Bookmobile" by Masha Hamilton (2007)

Hamilton's captivating third novel follows Fiona Sweeney, a 36-year-old librarian, from New York to Garissa, Kenya, on her sincere but naive quest to make a difference in the world. Fi enlists to run the titular mobile library overseen by Mr. Abasi, and in her travels through the bush, the small village of Mididima becomes her favorite stop. There, Matani, the village teacher; Kanika, an independent, vivacious young woman; and Kanika's grandmother Neema are the most avid proponents of the library and the knowledge it brings to the community. Not everyone shares such esteem for the project, however. Taban, known as Scar Boy; Jwahir, Matani's wife; and most of the town elders think these books threaten the tradition and security of Mididima. When two books go missing, tensions arise between those who welcome all that the books represent and those who prefer the time-honored oral traditions of the tribe. Kanika, Taban and Matani become more vibrant than Fi, who never outgrows the cookie-cutter mold of a woman needing excitement and fulfillment, but Hamilton weaves memorable characters and elemental emotions in artful prose with the lofty theme of Western-imposed "education" versus a village's perceived perils of exposure to the developed world.

Case Study No. 0420: Libraryman

Burnt Popcorn and Weed - Ep.5 (Libraryman)
1:02
He's like magneto of the library
Tags: burnt popcorn and weed
Added: 3 years ago
From: stratolvr335
Views: 123

Burnt Popcorn and Weed
Finally a show about chillin' in libraries

[scene opens with a man sitting in the library, his face covered by a red bandana]
NARRATOR: When evil strikes libraries, one man is there to save them ... Libraryman!
[cut to Libraryman taking a copy of "Contemporary Authors Vol. 103" and placing it on the desk, then "magically" causing it to float across the room and hit a male patron in the face]
[cut to another male patron looking at the bookshelf]
PATRON: I can't find the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Volume 8, edited by Stanley Sadie ...
[Libraryman jumps into the scene]
LIBRARYMAN: Oh, I know that one! I'll help you out!
["Kapow!!" appears on screen, then cut to the patron holding a book as Libraryman points at him]
PATRON: Holy balls!
[cut to Libraryman (without his bandana) talking directly to the camera]
LIBRARYMAN: Simon, what're you looking at?
[the camera zooms in on two female patrons sitting behind him, doing an elaborate handshake]

Burnt Popcorn and Weed
Episode 5

Music by Brian

Actors
Brian, Simon, Andrew, and the handshake girls

Case Study No. 0419: "Librarian" and "Librarian Stereotype"

Librarian vs. Stereotype : Introductions
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Introducing Librarian and Librarian Stereotype. Each one introduces themselves.

For a captioned version, see http://www.overstream.net/ view.php? oid=sae3a1m1tbl6
Tags: librarian-stereotype librarians stereotype
Added: 3 years ago
From: UTALibrary
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[scene opens with a female librarian and a male "librarian stereotype" (glasses, beard, sweater vest) speaking directly to the camera]
LIBRARIAN: Hi, I'm a librarian.
LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPE: And I'm a librarian stereotype!
LIBRARIAN: I work with a mixture of technology, information, and books.
LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPE: I only like books!
LIBRARIAN: I can teach you how to use multiple computer applications, or simply show you where something is and how to find it.
LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPE: I'll show you where something is if I have time and as long as you keep your mouth shut!
LIBRARIAN: I listen to what you want, and try to adapt what we have to meet your needs.
LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPE: I think nothing beats a card catalog, and if you don't know how to use it, you shouldn't be here!
LIBRARIAN: I'll help you identify your research topic, and find resources about it. Books, websites, journal articles, statistics--
LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPE: I'll refer you to a section of books and let you figure it out!
LIBRARIAN: I think collaborative spaces are important, and conversation is a part of it--
[the librarian stereotype leans in and loudly shushes her]
LIBRARIAN STEREOTYPE: You're in a library, keep it down!
LIBRARIAN: That's what the fifth floor is for--
[the librarian stereotype shushes her again]

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From inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org:

The University of Texas at Arlington has started a series of "Librarian vs. Stereotype" videos that are engaging and informative while still getting their message across

Notice the simple white background; the creators of this video omitted any distractions or visual elements other than the people on the screen. And it works! Our educational psychologist friends might have recommended against the background music as a non-essential element that adds to viewers' cognitive load, but otherwise this is a terrific instructional video.

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From wordpress.com:

UT Arlington Library has two videos riffing off the "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" ads, and they're both cute and clever. Both were uploaded just last week, so if we're lucky we'll be seeing regular installments. I just subscribed to the UTA Library's YouTube channel so I don't miss any new ones.

Case Study No. 0418: "A Vinganca da Bibliotecaria"

A Vinganca da Bibliotecaria
4:44
Jamais perturbe o silencio de uma biblioteca, ou despertara a furia da bibliotecaria decrepita. Filmofagia de signos do imaginario terrorifico universal. Escrito e dirigido por Santiago Dellape.
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Added: 4 years ago
From: sdellape
Views: 6,383

[scene opens on a black screen (briefly interrupted by a shot of a woman's terrified face with an eagle sound effect) before the camera pans across the bookshelves in a library]
["Lumio Filmes apresenta" appears on screen, then cut back to the stacks of the library, as an elderly female librarian is gently shelving a book]
["Um filme de Santiago Dellape" appears on screen, then cut to a closeup of the bookcart's squeaky wheels slowly being pushed across the floor by the librarian]
[cut to a young woman sitting at a table, with her head down (apparently asleep)]
[cut to the librarian taking an old book off the cart and placing it on the shelf, letting her fingers linger on the spine as a low growling sound can be heard]
["A Vinganca da Bibliotecaria" appears on screen, then cut to a music box as the camera slowly pans across the woman's naked body (a book covering her genitals and her arms draped across her breasts) lying on a table in the library, before the camera suddenly zooms in on the horrible flesh wound - complete with maggots - on the woman's face (including the requisite "needle skipping off the record" sound effect as the music box stops playing)]
[cut to the same woman (now alive and wearing a green dress, but still lying on a table in the library) bolting up and screaming ... She calms down, but then immediately leans over the side of the table and vomits up some type of red mass]
[cut to a closeup of an open book next to the music box, as the camera pans across the old card catalog ... The sounds of a female voice whispering can be heard, when a bolt of lightning illuminates the darkened room to show a Grim Reaper standing in the shadows]
[the camera continues panning around the room until it stops at the woman standing and looking around nervously]
[cut to another angle (so that the viewer can see the woman between the books from the opposite bookshelf) as she begins walking down the hall, when the faint sound of a baby can be heard]
[cut to a closeup of a half-closed door at the end of the hallway, as the sounds of demonic whispers can be heard ... A window in the middle of the door shows a shadowy figure quickly pass and shut the door, as the light in the room beyond the door turns off and the woman's breathing becomes more and more labored (while the music gets more and more intense)]
[cut to a closeup of the doorknob, as the woman turns it and pushes the door open ... the screen fades to black, then cut to a closeup of a doll's head, which suddenly jumps up (as if looking at the camera) while the sounds of insane laughter play]
[cut to a shot of the woman standing in the stacks, as the figure of a man slowly fades away behind her, then the camera slowly pans to the left to reveal that a grey-skinned man is standing right next to her (staring menacingly into the camera, while the woman just stands there)]
[cut to another shot of the elderly librarian, as the camera's POV begins moving rapidly towards her, then cut to the woman waking up (again on the table in the library) and screaming]
[cut to a young boy (wearing a suit and tie) standing in the middle of the room, as the woman rushes over to him and hugs him]
[cut to a closeup of the woman's back, as the camera slowly pans up to reveal that the boy's face has been replaced with the elderly librarian's]
[the woman lets go, but the boy has returned to normal ... until a quick cut to the Grim Reaper, then back to the boy laughing as he holds something off camera (he slowly raises his arm to reveal it is the severed head of the woman (with the wound and maggots)]
[cut back to the woman (now back in her regular clothes and sleeping with her head down) who suddenly wakes up screaming, but soon calms down and begins rubbing her neck]
LIBRARIAN: [from of camera] Silencio ...
[cut to the elderly librarian (holding the Grim Reaper's scythe) standing behind the woman - who apparently doesn't know she's there - when she puts a finger to her lips]
LIBRARIAN: [whispers] Shhh ...
[she smiles, then raises the scythe above her head]
[cut to the woman's POV, as the camera wobbles before falling to the floor (it focuses on the fallen chair and her leg, before the screen turns red and the sound of the boy's laughter can be heard)]

Elenco
Catarina Accioly - Rebeca
Maria Jose Brun - Bibliotecaria
Galileu HC Fontes - Pequeno Norman
Dijair Diniz - Mr. Guy
Fernando Villar - Espectro
Mallu Moraes - (Silencio)

Apoio
Cult Video
Biblioteca Central Dos Estudantes
Faculdade de Comunicacao da UNB
CPCE
Pedacinho
Pizzaiolo
Traje Comico

Co-Producao
Filmoscopio
MovieCenter

Lumio Filmes (c) 2005

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From imdb.com:

A Vinganca da Bibliotecaria (2005)
5 min - Short | Horror

Director: Santiago Dellape
Writer: Santiago Dellape
Stars: Catarina Accioly

The Revenge of the Librarian! Never disturb the silence of a library, or you will awaken the fury of the decrepit librarian. A film with terrifying signs of the imaginary universal.