Posts filed under ‘general’
A Star Wars Adventure
A Star Wars Adventure. Whittier College Library, March 16, 2006. A light sabre battle in the stacks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2WxwzGY42Q
Betty Glover library workout
Betty Glover Library Workout Tape Ad.
Hayden Library, Arizona State University, 1987.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8BKX2eQ0Q
Sex in the stacks
Many libraries, many places, time immemorial-ongoing.
Students at many colleges and universities claim that sex in the stacks is common, sometimes even a rite of passage before graduation. It is unknown how much actual sex in libraries takes place, but a review of the literature and an informal poll suggest that sex in the stacks is more of a myth than a reality. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=505583, http://library.duke.edu/blogs/answerperson/perkins-lobby-edition/
Streaking
Streaking. library unknown, 1970s. Image from The Library in America (Facts on File, 1986). http://www.txla.org/pubs/tlj75_2/libs.html
Berkeley streak
UC-Berkeley library, finals week, 2008. http://sfist.com/2008/12/22/naked_ucberkeley_streakers_jiggle_f.php
Norlin streak
Norlin Library, University of Colorado – Boulder, 2004 (an annual sorority tradition?) http://www.collegehumor.com/video:40838 WARNING: you’ll have to register to see this (rather tame) streak, and the host page, “College Humor,” contains porn links.
Hamilton College annual streak
Hamilton College Streaking Team annual streak. Burke Library, Hamilton College. Article: http://www.hamilton.edu/levitt/Insights/Herring_article_2008.pdf Blog entry: http://www.jockandbuttons.com/hamiltonstreaks/gq.html (Thanks, Katherine Collett!)
Streaking
Knoxville Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, May 1, 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_EvqXJx44
(Thanks, Marianne Lenox!)
Streaking
Streaking. Tutt Library, Colorado College, 1992. Photo from CC yearbook.
Streaking
Streaking. Tutt Library, Colorado College, March 5, 1976. Streakers zoom past Sallie Payne Morgan, former Dean of Women at CC. The CC yearbook for 1976 describes this streak as an annual event.
Similarly, the cross country team at Grinnell College has an annual streak including the library (thanks, Catherine Rod!) and the Ultimate Frisbee Team streaks through the library every spring during finals at Oberlin College, too (thanks, Ed Vermue!).
Library Shenanigans 