Posts filed under ‘general’
Fun with encyclopedias
Here we see “Leather to Macho” on the spine of the Dictionary of Art and “Menage Ottawa” on the Encyclopedia Brittanica (if that doesn’t seem funny, say it out loud). http://friendfeed.com/stevelawson/d2f92e81/ (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
Here’s another one — Suzie DeGrasse sends us a photo entitled “Popular Science channels Santa.”
Unwanted books made into art
OSA Archivum, Budapest, 2007 forward. Book cube, here and Concrete: Books Bound in Concrete, here, more images here; text of opening speech here. (Thanks, Owen Cramer!)
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.
Festive library
The Festive Library 2009. Hannon Library, Loyola Marymount University (LMU), December 2009. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lmulibrary/sets/72157622977026002/detail/ (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
Phonebox library
Phonebox has new life as library. Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset, England, 2009. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8385313.stm (Thanks, BoingBoing!) More photographs of the phone booth library are here: http://www.recyclart.org/2010/07/phone-booth-library/. Thanks, Dina Wood!
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.
"Berlin Wall" separating east and west sides of campus
“Berlin Wall” separating east and west campus. Tutt Library tunnel, Colorado College, November 2009. http://www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/4075063709/
Avoid the Zombie Horde
How to Print a Document at the COD Library While Avoiding the Zombie Horde. College of Dupage Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68doU1SxbY (Thanks, Marianne!)
Library 101
Video and essays on the future of libraries. http://www.libraryman.com/library101/ Begun by Michael Porter and David Lee King. (Thanks, BoingBoing!)
"It’s All in the Cards"
“It’s All in the Cards”: card catalog card shenanigans.
Year-long celebration at the University of South Carolina, 2009. http://www.sc.edu/library/inthecards.html Includes a slideshow of actual cards and contests involving cards. (Thanks, BoingBoing!)
Library Shenanigans 