Lyr Add: Another Librarian Song

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From: Hollowfox
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 03:36 PM

I copied this from a bulletin board when I was in library school. (For those of you not in the library biz, Shiyali Ramarta Ranganathan (he was from India) developed a very thorough (but not often used) cataloging system based on five "facets" of each book: Personality, Matter, Energy, Space, and Time. PMEST was also an acronym for "Pass My Ermine Suspenders, Tammy". This raised a lot of speculation, but was a lot easier to remember. Colons (No, the punctuation, 'Spaw) were used between the facets when writing down a book's "ID".)Anyway...

RANGANATHAN'S RAIDERS THEME SONG
to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club Theme Song

(male chorus): Ranga-Nathan, Ranga-Nathan, Ranga-Nathan, Ranga-Nathan

Who's the leader of the club for us li-brar-i-a-ns?
R-A-N, G-A-N, A-T-H-A-N!
Hey there, hi there, ho there, how we love that Indian!
R-A-N, G-A-N, A-T-H-A-N!

Ranganathan (Ranganathan), Ranganathan (Ranganathan)
Forever let us hold our facets high! (High! High! High!)< Come along and sing our song and cheer our champion!
R-A-N, G-A-N, A-T-H-A-N

Who's the leader of the club for us li-brar-i-a-ns?
R-A-N, G-A-N, A-T-H-A-N
Hey there, hi there, ho there, use those colons where you can!
R-A-N, G-A-N, A-T-H-A-N

Ranganathan (Ranganathan), Ranganathan (Ranganathan)
We think of you all through ev'ry PM (E! S! T!)
Come along and sing our song and cheer our champion!
R-A-N, G-A-N, A-T-H-A-N

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Another Librarian Song
From: MAG (inactive)
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 05:36 PM

Now, THAT one I will use on my colleagues. Fortunately, they already know about children's librarians.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Another Librarian Song
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 12 Apr 01 - 05:42 PM

And there's the fantasy series, "Conan the Librarian"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Another Librarian Song
From: Hollowfox
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 03:05 PM

That's no fantasy, Dick.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Another Librarian Song
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 03:44 PM

"Marian, The Librarian" from the Music Man.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Another Librarian Song
From: Burke
Date: 16 Apr 01 - 04:37 PM

Ah yes, colon classification. The system the cataloging profs loved to talk about because it was intellectually satisfying. When our head of Tech Services retired, we sang a few for her. Too bad we didn't know about this one.