Posts filed under ‘academic libraries’
National Library Week: Reference Desk
This video, made for National Library Week in April 2008, is very funny and all, but I’m beginning to feel a bit green around the gills at all the librarians-making-fun-of-patrons things that are filling up Library Shenanigans. What I like best are goofy shenanigans perpetrated by students or other library patrons. I’d like to see more of those. Still, this definitely qualifies as a shenanigan, and it made me laugh. Thanks, Emily Lloyd!
Music Librarian Cloned!
One more April Fool’s Day shenanigan, this one from Mudd Library at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin: http://blogs.lawrence.edu/library/2010/04/music_librarian_cloned.html. Thanks, Marianne Aldrich!
Elsevier will help you with your bake sale
First April Fool’s Day library shenanigan of 2010, that I know of: Elsevier Launches “Big Deal” Bake Sale Service, Other Commercial Publishers Scramble, from The Scholarly Kitchen. Thanks, Lisa Lister and Marianne Aldrich!
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolatur
Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolaturdocuments graffiti in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Quinn Dombrowski began the project in 2007. It’s now a blog, a book, and a massive collection of photographs. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Don and the Dewey Decimals
Library staff perform the chicken dance with book trucks at the Hartzler Library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisburg, Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whoL0m15rE4. Thanks, Anna Creech!
The Hackney Bunch
The Hackney Bunch, Hackney Library, Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina, February 2010. Video introducing the library staff at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMUOQR8kac. Thanks, Anna Creech!
Silent dance party at Carleton College
Silent dance party at Gould Library at Carleton College (and elsewhere on campus too), December 2009. Playlist decided in advance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhDmAAiE0E and more at Carleton’s own site, here: http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/activities/silent_dance_party/. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
More fun with encyclopedias
Someone — no one knows who — (well, I have my suspicions) rearranged the World Book encyclopedias in Tutt Library at Colorado College this week. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
A yeti in the library!
Tutt Library, Colorado College, January 2010. This patron told library staff “Sometimes it’s hard, being a yeti, in a library. ” She used her CC ID to check out a book about yetis. (Thanks, Marianne Aldrich!)
ADDENDUM APRIL 2015: The yeti has returned! If anyone got a photo, please send (jrandall@coloradocollege.edu)! This time he or she tried to check out Where the Wild Things Are and a picture book about monsters, but was unwilling to provide a gold card.
Art installation at Tutt
Tent-like art installation. Tutt Library, Colorado College, November 2009. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/4075063927/ Pictured: Tutt Library director Carol Dickerson.
Library Shenanigans 