Trusting in groundhogs and local television news

It's been beyond frigid here for the last several days. It's hard for me to believe the word of Punxsutawney Phil, who is calling for an early spring. I finally warmed up this afternoon when a crew from WCIA came in to film a segment on the impact of the Internet on libraries. And they chose this little library to represent all of its sisters and brothers! Being interviewed definitely made my internal temperature rise. The students who happened to be in the library during this event were their usual wonderful busy selves, particularly the ones who also agreed to be on the hot seat by being interviewed (thanks Jacob, Jeremy, and Linda!). The crew was here for at least an hour, and seemed to shoot quite a lot of footage. So it will be interesting to see how much of it survives to prime time (10:00 p.m. tonight) and how much of it ends up on the proverbial cutting room floor. I have a feeling that we'll be reduced to a cliche, just like our friend Punxsutawney Phil.