Libraryman

Lyrics:
song: hi-fi-sci-fi Library

Here-in contains collected thoughts from our brains
when it comes to the subject of: wow!
Like: Wow, it’s amazing that for thousands of years
libraries have survived at all
The razing, book blazing, techno staff crazing
fighting competition new tech and how
to emerge like a rocketship, speedy and fast
that is demanded in our world right NOW!!!

Chorus:
Hi-fi, sci-fi, library!
Hi-fi, sci-fi, library!
S. R. Ran-ga-na-than ‘long with Benjamin Franklin,
Dewey, Kilgour and good people like YOU
Learnt that Mashed up with currents and a whole bunch of circuits
info went to many not just the few.
Now we wrestle with techno, money and limitations,
that might sometimes make a good man go “ewww”
But we’re telling you brothers, sisters, ladies and others
that we’re near a massive “Wow!” breakthrough.
it is your:
Chorus

To prepare our libraries we must be informed, explore lots
and have fun learning how to evolve.
Learn about things like gaming, social software and being
just where our users are: that brings us HUGE Wows.
Look at open-source software and the creative commons,
look at netfilx and itunes and learn how
We can take competition, turn it into fruition:
THE LIBRARY FOR TOMORROW AND NOW!
It will be:

hi-fi-sci-fi-libraries!
hi-fi-sci-fi-libraries!

Now we sometimes might wonder how to succeed not blunder
since we’re underneath the specter of “how?”
It’s a do or die sea change and we cannot just remain, what we
were before or we’ll just sink down.
Take time daily, read lib blogs, build community, and
slog the through the learning, practice, wisdom and “pow!”
It will be fun we promise, you’ll work hard but will harness
and endow your libs tomorrow with “WoW!”
The wow of:

Chorus repeated

spoken over the chorus

We can do it.
We just need to be wise
and explain the situation
in a way that’s fun and savvy

Be informed
and connect with our communities.
We must engage with em all
from the kids to my mammy

banter over chorus
*fade*”

hi-fi sci-fi librarians:

Kathryn Greenhill
Murdoch University
Fremantle, Western Australia.
librariansmatter.com

Steven Lawson
http://stevelawson.name/seealso/
Tutt Library, Colorado College

Michelle Boule and Gideon Smith
wanderingeyre.com (Michelle’s site, not Gideon’s;)

John Blyberg - Darien Library
blyberg.net

Jessamyn West
librarian.net

Nebraska Library Commission Staff:
Michael Sauers
(as himself AND an alien and sock puppet)
Allana Novotny
Susan Knisely
Christa Burns

Joanna Axelrod - Escondido Public Library
Donna Feddern – Escondido Public Library

Cindy Hickey – State Library of Kansas
webjunctionworks.org/ks/blog/

WebJunction Staff (l to r):
top:
Chrystie Hill
Michael Shapiro
Allison Severinghaus
Laura Staley
bottom:
Emily Inlow-Hood
Jennifer Peterson
Emily Warren
Laura Zingg

Chadwick Seagraves
InfoSciPhi.info

Steve Miller
Allen County Public Library
http://goateedlibrarian.blogspot.com/

Jason Griffey
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Eliza Griffey
Future hi-fi sci-fi librarian?
jasongriffey.net

Katie Dunneback
younglibrarian.net

Blake Carver
lisnews.org

Christopher Parent

Cindi Trainor
And her two lovely and talented girls. 
Thank you very much, ladies!

Images:

Circuits:
Oliver Ingrouille
http://www.flickr.com/photos/82705724@N00/119490271/

Zombie37
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zombie37/256932981/sizes/l/

quapan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hinkelstone/2435823037/

lungstruck
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lungstruck/1913177062/

Todd Cliff
http://www.flickr.com/photos/todd_cliff/394991147/

maury.mccown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maurymccown/1122213940/

MarkyBonn
http://www.flickr.com/photos/markybon/372522719/

diluvienne
http://www.flickr.com/photos/diluvienne/276026958/

BotheredByBees
http://www.flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees/2389301870/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees/2389301860/

oskay
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/274464665/

geerlingguy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58595467@N00/2287062540/

PAUL
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marxalot/378898700/

uLe@Dortmund

mnsc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mnsc/433436548/

MathiasM
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathias_m/342535332/

endolith
http://www.flickr.com/photos/omegatron/1583210106/

Dano
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mukluk/145939373/

oskay
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/768600012/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/1364147095/

Synthesis Studio
http://www.flickr.com/photos/synthesisstudios/194274298/

social software:
b d solis (via flickr)

ear buds:
aloshbennett
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aloshbennett/1394564919/

kitty cat cowbell
Chicken Stock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arice/750801539/

creative commons:
http://creativecommons.org/presskit

drm:
http://www.eff.org/

Thank you all so much for being a part of this project!

-Michael & David

Michael Porter
libraryman.com

David Lee King
davidleeking.com

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