Comments on: library videos http://www.tangognat.com/2006/01/04/library-videos/ Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y. Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:00:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tanuki http://www.tangognat.com/2006/01/04/library-videos/#comment-5521 Tanuki Fri, 06 Jan 2006 21:23:55 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2006/01/04/library-videos/#comment-5521 Whereas I, librarian to the bone, assume the students know better and that it's a parody. Including a parody of the student himself. I guess the only way to find out is to ask them. [shrug] Who knows ... Whereas I, librarian to the bone, assume the students know better and that it’s a parody. Including a parody of the student himself. I guess the only way to find out is to ask them. [shrug] Who knows …

]]> By: tangognat http://www.tangognat.com/2006/01/04/library-videos/#comment-5511 tangognat Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:32:55 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2006/01/04/library-videos/#comment-5511 I know I'm probably being too picky :) I guess I wish the librarian-from-Hades was portrayed as a little more helpful and less lectury, because even though the skits are parody she seemed to conform to all the worst expectations someone might have about the "help" they would get at the library. I know I’m probably being too picky :)

I guess I wish the librarian-from-Hades was portrayed as a little more helpful and less lectury, because even though the skits are parody she seemed to conform to all the worst expectations someone might have about the “help” they would get at the library.

]]> By: Tanuki http://www.tangognat.com/2006/01/04/library-videos/#comment-5508 Tanuki Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:59:44 +0000 http://www.tangognat.com/2006/01/04/library-videos/#comment-5508 Okay. Agree with you. Sort of. Wanted to strangle that libarian-from-Hades from time to time. On t'other hand, I did find myself trying <b>very</b> hard not to laugh out loud, not really wanting my cubicle colleagues to know I might have strayed off the path of cataloguing this #*($#^$%@ serial. (Gods forbid I ever become a serials cataloguer. Mad, the whole bunch of 'em. Gotta be! :) ) And I did find myself enjoying at least the two segments I took the time to watch enough that I ended up learning the lessons they wanted to teach. In short: if that had been a <b>real</b> librarian / patron encounter, oh, the horror, the horror! But. Given that it's a tutorial, intended for students, to be watched at their leisure, and assuming these films amuse them as much as they amused me ... Well, yeah, I think they work pretty well. As for Josiah ... once I learned after whom it was called, I sorta kinda cottoned to the name. And I suspect so will the students. Okay. Agree with you. Sort of. Wanted to strangle that libarian-from-Hades from time to time. On t’other hand, I did find myself trying very hard not to laugh out loud, not really wanting my cubicle colleagues to know I might have strayed off the path of cataloguing this #*($#^$%@ serial. (Gods forbid I ever become a serials cataloguer. Mad, the whole bunch of ‘em. Gotta be! :) ) And I did find myself enjoying at least the two segments I took the time to watch enough that I ended up learning the lessons they wanted to teach.

In short: if that had been a real librarian / patron encounter, oh, the horror, the horror! But. Given that it’s a tutorial, intended for students, to be watched at their leisure, and assuming these films amuse them as much as they amused me … Well, yeah, I think they work pretty well.

As for Josiah … once I learned after whom it was called, I sorta kinda cottoned to the name. And I suspect so will the students.

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