2010 ALA Book Cart Drill Championship

Librarians can be tacky treasures, as was proven at the 2010 ALA Book Cart Drill Championship.  Dancing to choreographed routines, librarians pushed and pulled book carts to music, for the chance to win a gold, silver, or bronze book cart from DEMCO, the competition’s sponsor.  But I suspect most of them did it because librarians just want to have fun.  Since the American Library Association Conference was held in Washington, D.C. this year, I got to witness it for myself.

The first place winner was the team from the University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science, “Dance of the Living Librarians.”  Their performance was mesmerizing.  Watch this video, and at the end, imagine the roar of the audience, which I did not capture:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruvd9nzdiKs

The second and third place winners were almost as good.  In this video, I have the third place entry first, then the second.  I don’t have the names of these teams, and if I do find out who they are, I’ll post it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky7mCUUN630

Here is the YouTube channel with the official videos…much better quality than mine:  http://www.youtube.com/user/Circulatethefun