But NPR bloggers are people who want to work in radio, but instead are writing for the website. I work in a special type of archival research for film and TV, and I’ve yet to meet a librarian who has a clue about the materials I need. Some university archivists and special collections librarians do, but in general–nada, zip, zilch, and that includes NARA and L/C.

Has anyone seen the Librarian movie trilogy? I have seen amateur YouTube videos that are better in every respect.

The last thing I’d like to see is the stereotypical library and all of its associations in “pop-culture.” It just might catch on and before you know it – it will do just that—”pop.” Do you really want to be associated with the likes of Jersey Shore and the Salahis? Didn’t think so.

Keep it moving NPR, nothing to see here.

But I read “pop-culture” as TV, whether reality or scripted, not “popular.” Have you noticed that many reality shows popping up are now about interesting jobs? I took the cupcake comment to be along the lines of Cake Boss, Ultimate Cake show-off or whatever it’s called, and that new one about 2 women running a cupcake store in DC. I thought the NPR article was just suggesting that libraries would be the next profession to have cameras following staff around, and her arguments were about why you’d get good drama.

Except that she’s wrong. They’d have to do a LOT of filming to get the good bits. We all have stories – funny and horrifying – but it’s not like they happen every minute, or every day. We’re not exciting like Whale Wars or Ice Road Truckers.

As AL pointed out, libraries could be great settings for a sitcom because you have any number of characters coming in and out, even among recurring staff characters there’s a wide variety of personality types, and lots of potential for different scripts and scenes.

Re-read the NPR article. I think we might be taking the author to task for something she wasn’t even suggesting.

That, or I’m a librarian who can’t read…

The writers wanted to explore a pathologically controlling character so, who better expresses a pathological need for order than a librarian? She’s not just conservative, but openly racist to her staff. She is so unapproachable that the first time we see her husband he’s doing things to himself in the shower that are likely outside Library Journal’s comment policy, as a symbol of her inability to connect with any warmth to anyone.

And the story’s not about her mellowing out an becoming human, it’s comedy at the pain of others the whole way through.

I know a lot of librarians found it funny, because we all know people like the main character, but do we all know people like the cocaine dealing children’s librarian?

I’m not saying its a good or bad series as entertainment, but I am saying that if librarians are looking for a higher profile in pop culture, then we want better than “The Librarians” which essentially about librarians being funny by being a mixture of pathetic and viscious.

You should use some form of punctuation at the end of this sentence.

Thanks!

You’ll need an apostrophe (either a ‘ mark indicating possession or a digression addressing an abstraction, such as “Death, where is thy apostrophe?”)