November 2, 2007

The Open Source ILS Song

While I love all of the Shanachie Tour videos of Amer­i­can pub­lic libraries released so far, my favorite is eas­ily the one from the Flo­rence Pub­lic Library in Col­orado. Not because of the mes­sage of “the open source ILS song” sung by two librar­i­ans there, but more for the spirit in which they sing it. They are hav­ing *fun.* You really have to hear this one — jump ahead to the 10:35 mark if you just want to hear the song, but the inter­views are great, too.

Florence librarians singing "the open source song"

Nice job, FPL ladies! And great videos, Shanachies! I can’t wait to see you again — I am proud to call you my friends. You inspired many librar­i­ans dur­ing your journey.

"the Dutch mob"

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6:02 am Comments (7)

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  1. Glad you like the song! Fun is def­i­nitely part of library life around here.
    If you have a chance to visit come on by.

    Comment by Karen Hixon — November 2, 2007 @ 10:00 am

  2. Great song, I won­der if I can down­load it

    Comment by felix — November 6, 2007 @ 1:25 pm

  3. It will be on Youtube very soon.

    Comment by Jaap van de Geer — November 7, 2007 @ 7:41 am

  4. I really loved that song, we sang it as we were leav­ing. Too
    bad we mas­sa­cred some of the words, but we got the cho­rus right. lol
    :)

    Comment by cali_librarian — November 9, 2007 @ 2:10 pm

  5. Fun is def­i­nitely part of library life around here.

    Comment by MCSD — November 17, 2007 @ 7:09 am

  6. Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSHBzd9ftDE

    Final episode is also online: http://wordpress.shanachietour.com/2007/11/01/october-31st/

    Comment by Jaap van de Geer — November 19, 2007 @ 4:14 pm

  7. hey you guys its a nice song:)

    Comment by çadır — December 11, 2007 @ 3:38 am

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