Posts filed under ‘perpetrated by students or patrons’
Study Hard
Student-made mockumentary, Penrose Library, Whitman College, 2008. http://forkeepingtime.blogspot.com/2008/10/library-as-placearound-1-am.html (Thanks, Michael Paulus!)
Locker lending library
High school student keeps a banned-books lending library in her locker. Unknown American high school, 2009. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/24/kid-keeping-a-lendin.html (Thanks, BoingBoing!)
Flash mob rave
Undergraduate Library, UNC-Chapel Hill, December 9, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruEMaDZWRcs Another one, College of Charleston, fall 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTKSnSrLkU4, and lots more here.
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!)
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.
Common misconceptions
Common Misconceptions about the Eden Prairie Library. Eden Praire Library, Hennepin County, Minneapolis, 2007. A level 27 warlock in the library?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi78YJ1CD4Y (Thanks, Emily Lloyd!)
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!)
How I have fun at the library
Denver Public Library, 2007. Includes riding on book trucks, making book angels, and reading books. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFDo1dt0_Lo
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
Library Shenanigans 