LISNews: Librarian News

Steve Fesenmaier writes "I was hired by state librarian Fred Glazer, director of the West Virginia Library Commission, in June 1978, right out of library school. He had used federal funds to start the last new 16-mm film library in the world in 1976 after doing a survey of the state's public libraries. They overwhelmingly told him they wanted access to the great educational films other states had had since the boom after WW II. -- Read More

An Anonymous Patron writes "washingtontimes.com Story about Library of Congress' Moving Image Section. Patrick Loughney head of the Moving Image Section's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, says it's an archivist's job to determine which old films require immediate care and which ones can wait a few years before getting a face-lift. He calls it a "a triage center for aging films"
Mr. Loughney estimates that "over half of films made in America are lost or survive in badly degraded form." Luckily, 3/4 of films made in America suck anyways. ;-)"

Steve Fesenmaier writes "Bryson Vannostrand, a Buckhannon architect, recently attended the
ground-breaking for the new library to be built in Sutton. He designed
the new library. As the founder of WV's first micro-cinema, the Lascaux
Micro-Theater in Buckhannon, he just may be the person to bring the
micro-cinema concept to our public libraries and public libraries all
over the world. During the last decade many new micro-cinemas have been
created all over the country, ranging from NYC to California. (You can
locate any micro-cinemas by you at
this website
In 1976 WV created the last 16 mm film library in world. -- Read More

This article is notable only for its uber- stereotypical description of a librarian film character. Plus, it's a "librarian movie" I'd not heard of. If you were in Wichita last weekend, you could have caught 1979's 'The Attic', but don't expect to find this doggie at the corner Blockbuster. Still in print, according to imdb.com, though. The imdb description here. Not just "spinster librarian," but "pathetic, spinster librarian." Ouch!