National Library Week (April 24 - 28, 2023) is a time to celebrate our nation's libraries, library workers, and to promote library use and support.
UST Libraries online National Library Week Trivia Contest is here for your enjoyment. There will be one trivia question posted per day this week and one winner will be selected from the pool of correct answers to receive a 'valuable' prize.
We are doing something a little different this year by presenting some of our favorite librarians in pop culture who contribute to the collective vision of what people think librarians look and how they act. Some are more complementary than others. As always, if you know the name of the famous librarian let me (andrea.koeppe@stthomas.edu) know by 7:00 PM each day, and your name will be put into a pile of correct answers to win a prize every day during Library Week. Good luck!
Today's famous librarian goes a long way to dispel any stereotypes people may still have about librarians. Basically because she is a pony on her way to becoming a princess. I bet you didn't see that one coming. She is the library director in the town of Ponyville who works and lives in the Golden Oak Library that is built in a tree.
Although she is tidy and organized, no ponies have ever checked out a book from her library and she has been known to resent a library patron who interrupts her reading with a reference question. However she has also saved her pony friends many times with magic skills she learns from the books she reads.
Long story short, with a few professional development seminars and HR training sessions, I'm sure she will become a successful library director/princess.
Oh yeah, what's her name? If you know the answer, please let me know.
Today we are going back to 1957. Things were completely different back then because the plot of this movie revolves around a computer expert who tries to prove that his electronic brain can replace the staff of reference librarians who research facts and answer questions for the general public on all manner of topics.
Who is the librarian heroine of this movie who takes on the computers while holding court at booze-soaked office parties [Squad goals!]
Tonight's answer: I will accept either Katherine Hepburn or her character's name - Bunny Watson.
Tonight's winner: Jim Pinkerton
Congratulations!!
Starting in 2004 there were three, count 'em three made for TV fantasy-adventure movies about a nerdy bookworm with 22, count 'em 22, advanced degrees who protects a secret collection of artifacts. We're talking the Ark of the Covenant, Pandora’s Box, the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, Excalibur, the Holy Grail, and the original Mona Lisa. The one in the Louvre is a copy because of course.
And to answer your next question, No, this is NOT Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones Jr. Professor of Archeology, but someone who introduces himself with the words "I am The Librarian". That's fine and good, but what is his name?
Today's answer: To be honest, I never watched a single episode of ER, but I always knew who Noah Wyle/John Carter was. And for True Confessions II, I never watched any of "The Librarian" movies, (yikes!) but I always knew that Noah Wyle was famously Flynn Carsen, the answer to today's question. Luckily there are quite a few folks smarter than me.
Today's winner: Claire Lane
Congratulations!
Today's librarian is not an official librarian, but she works at the Litchfield Penitentiary library and is very well-read with strong opinions on books ranging from Ulysses to the Harry Potter series.
How appropriate on National Library Worker Day, that Tasha "Taystee" Jefferson gets the recognition she so richly deserves.
Today's winner: Susan Anderson-Benson.
Congratulations!!
Is it better to be feared than loved? It's a great question without an easy answer. On the one hand who doesn't want to be loved? On the other hand there might be fewer book challenges and threats to library workers if a little more fear was involved.
One library in Indiana has staked out a clear side as described "The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They’re mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well read, which makes them very dangerous.”
Today's answer: I appreciate the folks who answered 'Leslie Knope' because she is the library-hater, but the actual 'menace' is library director Tammy Swanson, AKA Tammy II.
Today's winner: Jill Strate
Congratulations!