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Library poetry, art, and comics

Library poetry, art, and comics. Snakeskin online magazine, February 2005. http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/111spred.htm With links to a few other library poems available online. The image at left shows Giselle Restrepo’s “The Corset,” made from library check-out cards.

February 17, 2010 at 9:33 pm Leave a comment

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.

February 17, 2010 at 9:32 pm 1 comment

Comics

Unshelved, online comic by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum (previously known as Overdue), also available in book form.

Shelf Check, online-only comic by Emily Lloyd. My favorite. So funny and subversive.

Late addition: there’s also James Turner’s Rex Libris series. Rex Libris, a former Egyptian god, is the Head Librarian at the Middleton Public Library.

February 17, 2010 at 9:32 pm 6 comments

Lest the Keepers of the Book Wreak a Terrible Vengeance.
Boulder Public Library, 2007. Pro-librarian conversation.
Overheard in the Office Also: http://www.overheardintheoffice.com/archives/005029.html (and all librarians can tell you about unusual things used as bookmarks, like condom advertisements or strips of bacon.)