Comments on: What shall I ask about “The Librarians”?

By: Bibliothekare in Fernsehserien « Bibliotan

Bibliothekare in Fernsehserien « Bibliotan — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:16:48 +0000

[...] Bibliothekare, die ein zweites Leben hat, haben auch in der virtuellen Welt über die Auswirkung der Image von Bibliothekare [...]

By: Library Views 圖書館觀點 » 電視劇《The Librarians》

Library Views 圖書館觀點 » 電視劇《The Librarians》 — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:49:02 +0000

[...] 澳洲 ABC 電視台最近才播映完畢一部完全以圖書館(員) 為劇情主軸的喜劇－ The Librarians。這齣只有6個單元的喜劇，主要圍繞在神經緊張的主管發展。澳洲當地的圖書館員當然也對此劇有所討論，Kathryn Greenhill 甚至在 Second Life 裡主持了一場討論會。 [...]

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:41:45 +0000

Ross…I dunno, my sitemeter has shown a couple of hits coming from your sitemeter site in the last couple of weeks…*someone* has to be clicking on those links

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 13:33:28 +0000

Don’t credit me with too much savvy, Kathryn. Thanks to you, I do have a shiny new sitemeter, but that doesn’t mean I know how to use it! I’m still at the stage where I get my jollies out of seeing that a handful of folk have stopped by and looked at my blog. Identifying who they are or where they came from is just too much excitement for me to handle at the moment.

Cheers!

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:39:43 +0000

Definitely overstaffed, Julia. Bet they don’t do the “librarian has breakdown because she has to make staff roster and please everyone” scenario.

I think I’ll keep watching it, but not sure if I would if it wasn’t set in a library. Heck, I think “Black Books” is absolutely hilarious, but have only caught four or five eps. when it was on in the same timeslot.

Thanks Ross – many librarians do still look like the people in the TV show, but more and more of us are perky geeks. I guess you picked up links from my later post to your blog on your shiney new sitemeter.

Vade – slydexia n’tis nufny! lewl ti si a tib.

By: Dave Pattern

Dave Pattern — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:04:29 +0000

Just watched the first episode, although had to resort to eMule to get it. Not bad, although (like Tom) it felt like a cross between “The Office” and “Nighty Night”.

UPDATE borrowers
SET firstname=”Cledan”
WHERE firstname=”Declan”

By: Ross

Ross — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:38:49 +0000

I thought the first episode was very poor – so weak that I can’t bring myself to waste any more time on it. Humour level meter barely moved. You could see ‘The Office’ hanging around in the background as an influence and an obvious reference point, but the scripting for ‘The Librarians’ had no sparkle, none of the groundbreaking originality of Ricky Gervais, no polish or wit, and some very clumsy and hamfisted attempts at satirising some of the bigotry that is rife in the Aust community at the moment. The quirkiness that some have mentioned was way too self-conscious, I thought. The big problem, though, was that it wasn’t remotely funny. Not for me, anyway.

Damn, I’m impressed by the metamorphosis of librarians though! The wonders of the web age have some pretty bizarre and unpredictable manifestations!

Cheers and thanks again for your PodCamp presentation, Kathryn! Now I can add checking my blog stats on Sitemeter and Google Anaytics to my ever-growing list of Net addictions.

By: Kay O'brien

Kay O'brien — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:39:20 +0000

Hi Kathryn,

I really liked it, and actually laughed outloud several times. All the staff where I work watched it, some people liked it, some didn’t.
I was wondering if the knicker book was real too!!
I will continue watching the show, it will be interesting to see the characters and storyline develop.

By: Julia Gross

Julia Gross — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 09:09:27 +0000

I thought it was very quirky, lots of characters with the flash backs promising multiple story lines which will develop over the coming weeks. So I’ll be watching again. The Frances character is a gem and very true to more than one person I’ve come across in libraries….the narrow minded control freaks. Frannie’s relationship with the w**king husband might be explored a bit. It’s very traditional library, no technology much in sight. And they seem to be over-staffed.

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:42:40 +0000

Thanks for your replies.

I can see from Sue’s comments, that it would be worth discussion “Brand Librarian” – whether it exists, whether we should try to control it, what it is, how it’s changed.

I think the set bears thinking about as well…what we all saw there. I was looking at the windows and Tom at the signage – did anyone notice Frances’ coffee mug? CafePress for sure.

Thanks again…lots more to raise there…