Library Squares

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• A telephone number to the library.
• A number you pick up at the circulation desk
• to tell you when it is your turn for
  help (like at the deli).
• A number you find in the catalog that tells you
  where
• a book is located, usually starting with
  letters.
• D. None of the above.

Breakfast at Tiffanys (1961). George Peppard
takes Audrey Hepburn to the New York Public
Library, where she has Never been before. She is
amazed to discover that the book he wrote is in
the library. They use the card catalog and
retrieve the book at the service desk. There the
spinsterish librarian (Elvia Allman) shushes them
a few times and becomes upset when he autographs
the book.
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• The Massasoit online catalog.
• A new browser.
• A library website.
• All of the above.

DESK SET (1957). Spencer Tracy is hired to
install a new computer in the Reference
Department of a TV network. The librarians
(played by Katharine Hepburn, Joan Blondell, Dina
Merrill and Sue Randall) though single women, are
knowledgeable, capable, and efficient
professionals. Miss Warriner (played by Neva
Patterson), a young woman who operates the
computer, is definitely not a librarian. (Tracy
refers to her as a "research worker.") She cannot
deal with the pressure of the reference desk, nor
conduct a decent reference interview. It is also
interesting to see how a query is entered into
the computer (named EMMARAC -- the
Electromagnetic Memory and Research Arithmetical
Calculator). Boolean logic it ain't.
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• The custodian.
• The computer.
• A reference librarian.
• None of the above.

MUSIC MAN (1962). Shirley Jones plays Marian
Paroo ("Marian the Librarian") of the River City,
Iowa, Public Library, who makes available
scandalous materials such as the works of Balzac
and Chaucer, and sings while she stamps books
slips. Later she looks up the fact that Prof.
Harold Hill (Robert Preston) could not have
graduated from the Gary, Indiana school in the
year that he claimed because it didn't exist at
that time.
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• To take books out of the library.
• The view videos in the library.
• To access databases outside the library.
• D. All of the above.

NO MAN OF HER OWN (1932). Clark Gable is a big
city con man who, after a deal goes sour in New
York, goes to a small town in the country to lie
low for a while. There he meets the local
librarian, played by Carole Lombard. She is young
and beautiful, he is a smooth talking woman's man
who tries to impress her with some truly awful
pick-up lines. ("Do your eyes bother you? They
bother me.") The other (older) librarian, played
by Lillian Harmer, encourages her to take a
chance with him. This film is noted for the scene
in which he ogles Lombard's legs while she stands
on a ladder to reach a book on a high shelf. His
scandalous stare created quite a controversy, and
prompted the founding of Hollywood's League of
Decency.
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• This is a citation for
• A book.
• A magazine article.
• A website.
• D. None of the above.

Campbell, Glen. Rhinestone Cowboy An
Autobiography. New York Villiard, 1994.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). Jimmy Stewart is
given an opportunity to see what life would have
been like had he never been born. His wife (Donna
Reed) is beautiful in their real life, but when
he sees her as a single woman she is a librarian
with glasses and a bun, and quite shy. Stereotype
city, but a happy ending.
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• On the Internet.
• On the WWW.
• From a library database.
• D. None of the above.

GOOD NEWS (1947). June Allyson is working her way
through college in the 1920s as an "assistant
librarian." She falls for the football hero,
Peter Lawford, and together they sing "The French
Lesson" in the college library, dancing through
the stacks as she reshelves books with little
attention to call numbers. In a later scene she
wants to dress up to impress him and asks her
girlfriend's opinion of her outfit. "You sure
don't look like a librarian," she says.
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• A book with lots of punctuation marks.
• A written work divided into historical periods.
• Material that arrives periodically, like
  newspaper,
• magazine, or journal titles.
• D. None of the above.

CITIZEN KANE (1941). Orson Welles' masterpiece
contains a short scene with the world's meanest
archivist (Georgia Backus), a woman with her hair
in a bun and an intimidating stare on her face, a
real dragon lady at the gates of knowledge.
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• To take books out of the library.
• The view videos in the library.
• To access databases outside the library.
• D. All of the above.

THE GIRL RUSH (1955). Rosalind Russell was a
librarian before inheriting a half-share in a
Las Vegas hotel.
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• Permission from your instructor.
• Identification (license or Student I.D.).
• Money.
• D. None of the above.

PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940). Jimmy Stewart asks the
Quaker librarian (Hilda Plowright) if they have
any local history materials. She replies that he
should check with her colleague in the other
room. He then asks the perennial library
question, "Dost thou have a washroom?" The
librarian, engaged in the popular movie past
time of placing handfuls of books onto empty
shelves without consulting the call numbers,
continues her work while pointing to the restroom
door. Stewart then encounters Katherine Hepburn
and they are shushed by the librarian while they
discuss his "poetic writings."
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