Loved, loved, loved this movie. It's a cult classic among librarians (at least it is among the ones with whom I associate). Hey-Hey-Helllloooo! I wonder what ties to librarianship the writer/director has? They must have some working knowledge of public libraries, because they hit so many things right on the head! What a fun flick--the music, the clothes, the subject matter--can't beat it.
My sister hated this film. She said that it was boring and pointless...... untill she actually got a job at the library... now this is her favorite movie and she watches it all the time.
shareI wish our public libraries were like the one in "Party Girl". Here (south of Seattle) they are filled with screaming children and teenagers on their cell phones. They don't pay attention to library rules AT ALL. It sucks. I just get in and out as fast as I can.
Even though this is a really old film, my friends & I still reference it all the time. I always say "What's up, buttercup?...The rent, and I'm not paying". This movie is an absolute classic.
LOVED this film. One of my favorite scenes is when Posey is conversing with librarians about library schools, and one of the women tells her that academic libraries are for whimps. Hilarious. Perhaps true. Ha!!
So many great lines in here. Parker Posey is my heroine!
I'm a librarian myself, and this movie makes me happy about that career choice. And it's funny, all the early-nineties club kids who work in this field nowadays; pretty soon, they'll start having raves at ALA conventions.
Death is...whimsical today.
I love the whole librarian humor in this movie.
shareUp until I watched this movie when it first came out I'd never heard of Parker Posey. But after watching this movie, I watched everything I could find in which she acted. I just fell totally in love with her after Party Girl.
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"I don't love you enough to hate you!!"
how DO you become a librarian? i swear i never am able to find out. i always wanted to.
share To be a librarian, almost all libraries reqire you to have a masters in library service. For more information, go to www.ala.org (American Library Association) to the education session. You will get a list of accredited schools.
You don't need a degree to do other jobs within a library, so it's a good idea to work in one for a while before you go for a degree.
I agree. Definitely work in a library for a bit before committing to grad school. The general public has no idea about the job we do. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "Oh, it must be so nice to work at the library. It's so quiet and you can just sit and read all the time." NOT! It's a great career that's always changing. I learn new things and meet new people everyday at work. I love it. But it's definitely not quiet:)
shareI also agree. Not only does prior work history help you decide if you want to commit to library school, it helps if you do pursue the degree.
Also, here's an article about library school that might be worth a look:
http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/communitylibraryeducation/856045-272/story.csp
I am a library assistant in an Interlibrary Loans deptartment at an university library. I can relate to Mary's aunt when she says, "These interlibrary loans are going to be the death of me." Of course back when the movie takes place there was a lot more to do since the technology wasn't what it is today. What we do is get books, etc. for our patrons from other libraries when we don't have it and vice versa. We even get stuff from Japan and Australia to name 2 countries. The New York City Libraries participate in interlibrary loans but only in supplying articles/photocopies. They don't loan out their books. Another great quote is "He's not a dick, he's a patron. Classic! -Malia (Hawaiian for Mary).
shareI never realized that the Interlibrary Loans were tricky to do, but the materials do take quite a long time to arrive whenever I request them via that method. Still, I'm extremely grateful that such a convenient option exists!
During college I worked as a "Junior Page" in a public library. My official job description was to shelve children's books, but I wound up maintaining the entire children's department as well as, often, the rest of the ground floor, which included Young-Adult and adult audio-visual. This is was usually no small task, given the obscene carelessness with which many parents and kids treated the place. I've always been a big appreciator of libraries, so this bugged me to no end, and it was such a nice treat to see people respecting the Dewey Decimal System and being desirable patrons. ;)
Yes, I was working in a library at the time this movie came out, and all the employees loved it.
I remember when her aunt asked her how she found a book, and Parker answered "I tel-neted to netscape and connected to the llibrary of congress ..." or something like that and I laughed out loud in the theater. (It was 1995, remember jughead and veronica?) Yeah, there was someone with inside library info writing this one.
I still love this movie. Did I just see you put that book randomly on the shelf?
She actually mentioned gopher, the precursor to google,et al. I'm an academic librarian and never saw this movie until today. Loved it! Although, of course, no one would expect a clerk to classify a book. Gotta be a professional. :)
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