{"id":3638,"date":"2010-08-03T22:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=846"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:20","slug":"dewey-decimal-rap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2010\/08\/03\/dewey-decimal-rap\/","title":{"rendered":"Dewey Decimal Rap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NHiUQb5xg7A\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-847\" title=\"dewey\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/dewey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Hi, my name is Melville Dewey! Nice to meet you, how you doing? This is surprisingly catchy and funny. New Hanover County Public Library, Wilmington, North Carolina, 2009. Make sure to watch the excellent dance moves at the end. Other library song videos made by library staff or library school students include <a title=\"Libraries Will Survive (long version)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7AhSxoVmZQs\">Libraries Will Survive<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/o4TKDIgUIiQ\">I Want to Be a Librarian<\/a>. And of course there are plenty of videos made by students or other patrons, like <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ra7r1dYHGgY\">Library Thriller<\/a> or the excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wPSV8CsshnM\">Library Girl<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, my name is Melville Dewey! Nice to meet you, how you doing? This is surprisingly catchy and funny. New Hanover County Public Library, Wilmington, North Carolina, 2009. Make sure to watch the excellent dance moves at the end. Other library song videos made by library staff or library school students include Libraries Will Survive\u00a0and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-WG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}