2019

Eureka Theater Eureka, CA

with

Nick Wilczek

Director, Humboldt County Library

and

Corin Balkovek

Librarian, Humboldt County Library

and

Michael Logan

Technical Services Head, Humboldt County Library

and

Garrett Purchio

Teaching and Learning Librarian, HSU Library

and

Ruth Mitchell

Library Services Media Teacher, Eureka City Schools

and

Susan Gehr

Librarian, College of the Redwoods Library; Principal Investigator, Karuk Archives and Accessibility Project

Obselidia— Librarianship in the digital age

A panel of librarians from local libraries, including the Humboldt County Library, discuss information and librarianship in the digital age. Presented as part of the 2019 National Week of Science on Screen.

Eureka Theater Eureka, CA

George, a lonely librarian, believes love is obsolete, until a road trip to Death Valley with a cinema projectionist named Sophie teaches him otherwise.

George Ruben (Michael Piccirilli), a man out of step with the 21st century, is pathologically nostalgic for things that used to be and never will again. He sets out to chronicle these items in an opus he dubs “The Obselidia.” On his quest to catalogue critically endangered occupations, George meets the beautiful Sophie (Gaynor Howe), a cinema projectionist who works at a local art house movie theater. Sophie is a vivacious free spirit, who lives life in the moment and rarely stops to look back. She pursues a friendship with George, and allows him to interview her about her own work for “The Obselidia.” They then journey to Death Valley to interview a maverick scientist (Hoyt Taylor) who is predicting the imminent end of the world.

Science on Screen