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Librarians are fantastic. Sometimes they help you find the book you're looking for, sometimes they sing and dance around to keep your children occupied for half an hour, sometimes they make calendars for charity – basically, they're great. So how sad to read that a librarian at St Hilda's College in Oxford has apparently been fired – and over something which wasn't even her fault.

Calypso Nash, reports Oxford student paper the Cherwell, was sacked after 30 students made a Harlem Shake video in the college library. They've been fined by the college, but Nash, the librarian present at the time, lost her job.

The college's student body is now "calling in the strongest terms for Calypso to be rehired", arguing in a motion that "the Harlem shake did not cause a disturbance coming as it did at 11:30 pm on a Sunday evening" and that the event "only lasted roughly seven minutes".

Ellen Gibson, a student at St Hilda's, told the Cherwell: "The situation seems ridiculous. The librarian had nothing to do with the protest; she just happened to be there at the time." Junior common room secretary Katie Meadon said: "We are not trying to deliberately undermine any decisions made by college authorities, but we (and the rest of the JCR) believe that the dismissal of the librarian in question was unfair."

Good on the students for protesting her dismissal, and with any luck it will make a difference. "Speaking as an Honorary Fellow of @StHildasOx I'm baffled that my alma mater appears to have lost its sense of humour," tweeted crime novelist Val McDermid this morning. Hopefully, St Hilda's will track it down again soon – after all, the New York Public Library let the Ghostbusters into their hallowed halls a few years back, and I think even Oxford students can probably cope with a seven-minute disruption of their valuable library study time without lasting harm. Although next time, perhaps they might consider that the Harlem Shake doesn't actually have to take place in the library.