Addy Will Know: A New Song for the Mod­ern Librar­ian 

“Librar­i­ans have appeared in pop cul­ture as shush­ers, spin­sters, even sex sym­bols. What about solvers of great conun­drums, mas­ters and mis­tresses of orga­ni­za­tion, pur­vey­ors of intel­lec­tual freedom?!

‘Addy Will Know’ avoids the stereo­types. Serv­ing as a musi­cal trib­ute to the mod­ern librar­ian, it is about  a real librar­ian who leads a lost  patron to the four books he is look­ing for. The names of the books are never men­tioned, but as a kind of puz­zle, the song itself includes call num­bers that cor­re­spond to the books hinted at in the verses.

Since ‘Addy Will Know’ is essen­tially a song about you, the mod­ern librar­ian, we want you to participate!

1. Be in our video!

Record your­self singing the song at work or school, upload your video to send­space / yousendit /etc, and then email us the link. We will edit your video with all the oth­ers, cre­at­ing a video col­lage of mod­ern librarians.

2. Enter our contest!

Be one of the first 10 librar­i­ans to iden­tify the books of the call num­bers men­tioned in the song and you will win a copy of the new cd ‘Crawl Inside Your Head.’ Read our con­test rules and then email your answers here. Once the win­ners are cho­sen we will post their names here on the wiki.

3. Get your local col­lege radio sta­tion to play the song.

‘Addy’ will hit the col­lege air­waves Sep­tem­ber 3, 2007. Con­tact your local col­lege or uni­ver­sity radio sta­tion now and request that they ‘ADD ADDY!’ from SNMNMNM’s ‘Crawl Inside Your Head.’ You can find con­tact infor­ma­tion for the sta­tions in your area at: http://www.quadphonic.com

Help us give librar­i­ans the recog­ni­tion they deserve! Post the link to this wiki [addywillknow.pbwiki.com] to the list­servs and blogs you con­tribute to.

Hope you like the song!

–Sea­mus and Mark and Matt and Matt” [Thanks, Jessica!]

You can also lis­ten to the song on the wiki — catchy. I look for­ward to see­ing what librar­i­ans do with this.