Between 2010 and 2019, Cauli Le Chat (2006?-2020), feline roving reporter for Mooresville Public Library (Mooresville, Indiana), reported all things interesting to cats (and humans) happening at the library. Related stories from across the state (and beyond) were also included.
Our promo trailer gives a "teaser," but you should watch the entire videos when they are uploaded to the MPL YouTube Channel Early Literacy Playlist every Wednesday in October.
Prepare to be teased.
MPL Promo Trailer: Puppet Interviews, by Miss Michelle
(Early Literacy Vlog Series)
After watching the complete videos, email your choice for official MPL puppet to Crafty Gal. Your vote counts plenty! Well, it counts for one, anyway.
Cauliette
I noticed that Cauliette did not make the initial cut for video interviewing. She is crushed! She sits, weeping, atop the display cases in the Indiana Roving Reporter Room. It's heart-rending to watch, so I'm leaving. I've got roving reporting to do.
At Least These Candidates Don't Advertise Endlessly on TV,
Cauli Le Chat
MPL Roving Reporter
Sidekick News Beat
P.S. Colin Dodds has a funny (and educational) rap video about job interviewing. His album, Get Down to Business (2011), is available on iTunes.
Savvy and Programma Mama have a couple of displays for 2012 Banned Books Week (happening this week). The books are wrapped--because they're forbidden--and you have to check them out sight unseen. They talked about it in their recent MEG-A-RAE video blog. As always, click the images to bigify.
Banned Books from our general (i.e., adult) collections
Forbidden Fruit!
Banned Books from our young adult (i.e., teen) collections
As you know, we have some promo trailers for Banned Books Weeks past and present. Take a look if you haven't seen them.
It feels like a birthday party, with all these wrapped books around. I guess it is a party of sorts. It's a celebration of your right to choose what you wish to read. A 30th birthday bash, actually. ALA began Banned Books Week in 1982. That was way before my time (in my present life), but I was around then in one of my previous nine lives.
But That's Another Story Altogether,
Cauli Le Chat
MPL Roving Reporter
Banned Books Week News Beat
P.S. Here is the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) promo trailer for 2012 Banned Books Week Virtual Read-Out.
Thanks to Halloween, October is a spooky month. This makes it the perfect time to read books about the paranormal and supernatural. Fortunately, my Library has a book trailer playlist ready to help you choose some interesting books. Click the graphic below to start the videos, which will play sequentially. Or you could visit the playlist page on our YouTube Channel and choose which book trailers to watch.
Haunted Library Update (Sept. 30, 2013): Check out Scowl-Face's haunted library blog post for more details about all the spooky happenings at Mooresville (Indiana) Public Library.
Edited Videos: In case you're in a hurry, my minions have edited the two episodes of MEG-A-RAE to highlight the "poltergeist encounters." I think we can safely rule-out anything paranormal happening here, but it's still funny. Click the player below to watch the video. The full episodes are embedded further below.
A poltergeist invades this week's episode of MEG-A-RAE, the Library's readers' advisory vlog (video blog) featuring Savvy and Programma Mama. See if you think it's an authentic paranormal phenomena.
What do you think? Seemed sort of fake to moi. I'm guessing it was Scowl-Face tossing the book across the top of those short shelves into the camera frame. Amos Rusie, he's not.
There has been authentic poltergeist activity registered in the MPL IndianaRoving Reporter Room, most recently by those ghost hunters who offered that program at the Library a few months ago. We even did a program (or promo) trailer about it.
Drop by the Library to pick-up your paranormal books. There are loads of fiction about the supernatural, but we've got non-fiction, too. Check the stacks in Dewey # 133 and 398. I could be more specific about those Dewey numbers, but you'll find lots to interest you by browsing the shelves.
Is the Library actually haunted? Talk to Programma Mama and Savvy. They can tell you some things that will make your hair stand on end.
Poltergeist Update (October 24, 2012): The Library's poltergeist is getting rather clumsy, as this week's episode of MEG-A-RAE demonstrated.
I'm a Black Kitty, So I Know About the Paranormal,
Cauli Le Chat
MPL Roving Reporter
Paranormal News Beat
P.S. I'd really like to show you some video taken during the ghost hunters' investigation at the Library, but I don't have permission. Sorry. Meanwhile, let's see what's available through share alike from YouTube.
P.P.S. Is any of this bona fide poltergeist activity? Not when it's "made to order" like this, I'll wager. I'm guessing some clever wannabe filmmaker has arranged some pretty spectacular "paranormal phenomena." Great production, dudes! You'll be making scary movies for real someday.
Hopefully, within a day or so my blog will have garnered 125,000 viewings. So another arbitrary statistical hurdle shall have been surmounted by moi. (Passive voice gets a bum rap in English grammar.)
Cauli Le Chat
MPL Roving Reporter
Library Statistical News Beat
P.S. "125 Spheres," by David Sylvian, is only 30 seconds long and has just four lines of verse. Such is the experimental, avant-garde styling of his album, Manafon (2009). What does it all mean? Beats moi. Try reading the Welsh poet R. S. Thomas and see if that sheds any light.
