Library Cheer

How do you spell Library? California Library Association president Margaret Miles opened the 2007 CLA conference, themed "Raise Our Voices" with the Library Cheer, which InfoPeople.org captured and posted to YouTube. Margaret also led the Library Cheer in the Spring when California librarians gathered in Sacramento for Library Legislation Day. Words for the Library Cheer are on the CLA blog on May 9, 2006 and go like this:

Library Cheer!
(leader says what's in caps, crowd say what's in lower-case.

Everybody says hip-hip-hooray!)
L-I-B-R-A-R-Y
l-i-b-r-a-r-y
I SAID L-I-B-R-A-R-Y!
l-i-b-r-a-r-y
WHERE DO YOU GO FOR POETRY?
l-i-b-r-a-r-y
WHERE DO YOU GO FOR HISTORY?
l-i-b-r-a-r-y
WHERE DO YOU GO IF YOU'RE OLD AND SHY?
l-i-b-r-a-r-y
WHERE DO YOU GO TO LEARN HOW TO FLY?
l-i-b-r-a-r-y
I SAY LIBRARY, YOU SAY CARD
LIBRARY
card
LIBRARY
card
I GOT ONE, AND IT WASN'T TOO HARD
LIBRARY
card
LIBRARY
card
BIG BRICK BUILDING HOW SWEET IT LOOKSSO TAKE ME IN TO THE LAND OF BOOKSTO THE L-I-B-R-A-R-Y
l-i-b-r-a-r-y
IT'S BEEN IN YOUR TOWN FOR A HUNDRED YEARS,LET'S GIVE YOUR LIBRARY THREE BIG CHEERS!
hip-hip-hooray!
hip-hip-hooray!
hip-hip-hooray!