Library Ireland Week 8-13 March 2010: @ Your Library

A highlight of Library Ireland Week 2008 will be the screening of The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians Through Film.  The European première will be shown at the Health Services Library Group Annual Conference on 21st February.

Ann Seidl, the Director, has agreed to screen the film again in Cork, the School of Library and Information Studies at UCD and at a gala viewing on Saturday, 1st March at the Irish Film Institute in Dublin.

Screening schedule:

• The Briery Gap Cultural Centre, Macroom, Co.Cork on Wednesday, 27th February at 8pm. Further details
• University College Dublin on Friday, 29th February at 3.30pm. This viewing will be for students on SILS, MLIS and GDLIS programmes.
• The Irish Film Centre, Temple Bar, Dublin 1 on Saturday, 1st March at 1pm. Futher details

"The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians through Film will be the first full-length documentary film to focus on the work and lives of librarians.  Using the entertaining and appealing context of American movies, the film will hold some surprises for people who may think they know what librarians do. American film contains hundreds of examples of librarians and libraries on screen -- some positive, some negative, some laughable and some dead wrong. Films such as Sophie's Choice, Philadelphia and It's a Wonderful Life show librarians as negative stereotypes. The librarians in Lorenzo's Oil, Desk Set and The Shawshank Redemption, on the other hand, are competent and professional. Dozens of interviews of real librarians will be interwoven with movie clips of cinematic librarians and serve as transitions between the themes of censorship, intellectual freedom, children and librarians, pay equity and funding issues, and the value of reading." (www.hollywoodlibrarian.com)

View The Hollywood Librarian trailer on youtube. 

Download The Hollywood Librarian poster (PDF, 1.92Mb)

Download The Hollywood Librarian Now Showing poster (PDF, 2.63Mb)

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