Posts filed under ‘academic libraries’
Short Pencil Saga
Nick Baker, Williams College, Library Week 2007. http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/short-pencil-saga After the film, click on “more” for another short piece. (Thanks, Everett Wilkie!)
The Librarian: A Mockumentary
The Librarian: A Mockumentary.
Drake University Law Library, Des Moines, Iowa, 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqWQQ6w3HTM
Lyle Lovell takes librarianship very seriously. Contains profanity.
Charlie Goes Out
Tutt Library, Colorado College, January 2008.
http://personalwebs.coloradocollege.edu/~jrandall/libraryshenanigans/Charlie_Goes_Out.mov A large snowman visits the library. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
Living at the library
Brown Science Library, Brown University, December 2007. http://www.ivygateblog.com/2007/12/brown-student-moves-into-24-hour-library/ Grant Gilles moved into a 24-hour library for about a week. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
CC’s book truck drill team
Tiger Tales Precision Book Truck Drill Team, Tutt Library, Colorado College. More photos in the Flickr set. The Tiger Tales, formed in 2004, have performed in several local parades. Several other libraries have drill teams, including Western Carolina University, Gettysburg College, Tulane University, and the Fredricksen Library.
Tetris in the library
Shields Library, UC-Davis, 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4DicoDiCk
See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIRWoo9qrU at Brown University.
Pac-Man in the library
Pac-Man reenacted by humans.
UGLi (Undergraduate Library), University of Michigan, 2005.
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/21/pac-man-reenacted-by.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FGzOoVvo6w (Thanks, BoingBoing!)
Computer start-up
Extended computer start-up sound from prangstgrüp.
Columbia University library?, 2005.
http://www.ronniedelcarmen.com/blog1/2005/10/prangstgrup-videos-if-laptop-startup.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1bgsvsWms
Ninja librarian
Unknown college or university library, 2007? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyLTqBARFt8 (Thanks, Ahniwa Ferrari!)
Orgo night
Orgo Night.
Butler Library, Columbia University, 1960s-ongoing (or maybe 1980s-ongoing).
The Columbia University Marching Band plays at 11:59 p.m. the night before the Organic Chemistry final.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Marching_Band, www.cumb.org
Library Shenanigans 