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Night of the Living Librarians

Issue Date: 
August 24, 2010
Students from Pitt’s School of Information Sciences (SIS) summoned a spirited performance set to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre and departed the 6th Book Cart Drill Team World Championships with the coveted first-place prize, the Golden Book Cart. The event was staged June 27 during the American Library Association’s 2010 conference in Washington, D.C. The skeleton crew of 13 students presented Night of the Living Librarians, a book-cart ballet arranged by team captain and SIS graduate student Sherri Griscavage that complemented Saint-Saëns’ ghoulish musical score with visual themes and recorded excerpts from English author Neil Gaiman’s novel The Graveyard Book. The performance can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlVQm0Whc4.Students from Pitt’s School of Information Sciences (SIS) summoned a spirited performance set to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns’ 'Danse Macabre' and departed the 6th Book Cart Drill Team World Championships with the coveted first-place prize, the Golden Book Cart. The event was staged June 27 during the American Library Association’s 2010 conference in Washington, D.C. The skeleton crew of 13 students presented 'Night of the Living Librarians,' a book-cart ballet arranged by team captain and SIS graduate student Sherri Griscavage that complemented Saint-Saëns’ ghoulish musical score with visual themes and recorded excerpts from English author Neil Gaiman’s novel 'The Graveyard Book.' The performance can be viewed on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUlVQm0Whc4.