Posts filed under ‘fictional shenanigans (TV, etc.)’
fake survey is funny
We Asked 22 Librarians About the Most Italian Guy They Ever Had To Find A Book For
This made me laugh so hard. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
funny library play for kids
“Bobby Lucelee: A Very Silly Play for Kids” is available in PDF format here from author, playwright, and cartoonist Jonathan Caws-Elwitt. It calls for six actors and is, indeed, quite silly.
Sample dialog:
BARRY: Who’s Bobby Lucelee?
LIBRARIAN A-M: Well, duh, that’s what we’re all trying to find out!
LIBRARIAN N-Z: Psst . . . librarians aren’t supposed to say “duh”.
(Librarian A-M shushes Librarian N-Z.)
LIBRARIAN N-Z (To the audience): Who can think of some ways to find out who Bobby Lucelee is?
(Ad lib as audience members make suggestions.)
BARRY (To Librarians): Where are the books on stamp collecting? I need to get started on my homework.
CHRIS: Stamp collecting? I thought the assignment was on Italian cooking.
LIBRARIAN A-M: I thought it was on Bobby Lucelee.
TERRY, CHRIS, BARRY: Shh!
Thanks, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt, and I hope anyone who performs the play will send a video to Library Shenanigans!
(p.s., I know the cartoon illustration has nothing to do with libraries or the play, but I loved it so much I couldn’t resist using it.)
card catalog shenanigan
I have categories for library shenanigans perpetrated by students, staff, and animals. This one is perpetrated by ghosts. It’s the New York Public Library card catalog frenzy in Ghostbusters.
Beastie Boys “Sabotage” — in a library
A library version of the Beastie Boys video “Sabotage,” shot at the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago. Here’s the original video, for comparison. Thanks, BoingBoing and NYPL.
The Two Ronnies: Shouting in the Library
We here at Library Shenanigans have pointed you toward The Two Ronnies before, but we must do it again. Here’s the shouting in the library sketch. Thanks, David Kay!
Dick Cheney Vice Presidential Library
” ‘Now I must go and search for food and moisture,’ continued Luddom, moments before being devoured by a swarm of ravenous bats.”
Thanks, Amy Augusen!
Jocasta Nu, Jedi Librarian
Here’s an excellent short piece on the library and librarian in Star Wars II: Attack of the Clones, with a link to a ridiculously detailed video about the Jocasta Nu action figure. (Sample quote: “This [light saber hilt] does have the little hook on the end of it where it could have possibly attached to a belt, but she doesn’t have the little hole in the side so she can’t attach it to her belt…”)
Jennifer, author of the piece, rightly complains about the poor quality of the reference interview between Jocasta Nu and Obi-Wan. She holds herself back from making a fuss about the fact that the library shelves appear to be filled with bands of light, sooo futuristic except that, apparently, you have to go to the library in order to access these digital texts.
Thanks, Daniel M. Shapiro!
Oreo ad library shenanigan
Apparently, this ad aired during the Superbowl yesterday. I missed it, but several people let me know about it. I only wish people really did whisper whenever they were in the library. I confess I have shushed, and been shushed, both. Thanks, everybody!
Big Nate fictional library shenanigan
This is actually a great idea! I think library bookmobiles should totally do this!
Thanks, Will and Celie, my kids, who have read all the Big Nate books about a hundred times. This particular comic appears on page 29 of Big Nate: Here Goes Nothing (Harper, 2012).
A Professional Assessment of Twilight Sparkle as a Librarian
John Farrier apparently knows the importance of assessment in libraries! Here he critiques fictional pony librarian Twilight Sparkle’s skills at the reference interview and more. Thanks, BoingBoing!
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