For one of the scenes in his follow-up song, Gentleman, released this past April, Psy chose Seoul’s splendid Metropolitan Library, recently re-furbished and re-opened to the public. He can be seen dancing on the sweeping steps by the impressive, five-meter high wall of books that links the two General Collection floors — thereby giving the library some extraordinary publicity, even if one or two of the more strait-laced city officials wondered whether encouraging dancing in a library is quite the right message (hey guys, anything that makes books seem cool, no?).
Michael Sauers is the Technology Manager for Do Space in Omaha, NE. After earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany's School of Information Science and Policy Michael spent his first 20 years as a librarian training other librarians in technology along with time as a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, a technology consultant, and a bookseller. He has written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and has published 14 books ranging from library technology, blogging, Web design, and an index to a popular horror magazine. In his spare time, he blogs at TravelinLibrarian.info, runs The Collector's Guide to Dean Koontz website at CollectingKoontz.com, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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