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 currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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