Monday, April 11, 2011

Endorsements, Celebrity

Librarians should celebrate National Library Week by recruiting celebrities to write op-ed pieces for their local newspapers, to film televised library public service announcements, and/or to star in pro-library YouTube videos. If you don’t have access to a celebrity, it is perfectly acceptable to dress up as one and do the promotion yourself.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

:|

R Carter said...

That's just sad. She shouldn't be around children.

Anonymous said...

Scary

Short Tales from a Waffle said...

I actually did that....I dressed up as "Captain Jack Sparrow" and it was fantastic! Kids loved it!

Anonymous said...

oh my. that's just scary as all get out.

Anonymous said...

Oh no. Wrong on so many levels. And this is an elementary school??

Anonymous said...

Oy veh! this is SO wrong...!

just glad she didn't have instrumental backup...

GeekGirl said...

On the one hand, it's weird. On the other hand, I am all for librarians having fun for librarian week. Woot! Ke$ha isn't exactly the character to portray for elementary school, tho. . .

randy said...

I thought that horrific U Wash Info School video was bad. (My reaction watching it was, "kill me now".) This one is wretched. Combine these two with Library 101, and we've got the trifecta of library videos on the scale of Plan 9 From Outer Space. As one commenter noted elsewhere, "Make the bad lady stop."

ElderlyRookie said...

By 1980, I had completely abandoned popular music. I still haven't come back, and this is a perfect example of why not.

Anonymous said...

Sheesh. All you naysayers and critics. Where is your sense of humor?

Anonymous said...

And, just yesterday, this homage to libraries was posted at the NPR blog Monkey See:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/04/11/135314291/the-library-card-as-a-pop-culture-fiends-ticket-to-geek-paradise

Anonymous said...

CANNOT UNSEE.

Anonymous said...

If you look at some of her other videos, the students at her school appear to love it. It seems like she's really connecting with her students, so apparently she's doing something right, weirdness and all.