Posts filed under ‘public libraries’
Livin’ la Vida Library with George B. Zip
George B. Zip tries to convince the Seattle Public Library that they should open a branch in his apartment.
Ninjerktsu: Public Library Ninja
Ninjerktsu: Public Library Ninja is a comic strip showing what can happen if you annoy a ninja in a library. Thanks, Karen Lakes!
Toronto Public Library’s local music collection
In May 2010, local bands played at the Toronto Public Library to celebrate its local music collection. Apparently, there was moshing and pit-diving, IN THE LIBRARY. C’mon. That’s cool. Thanks, Suzie DeGrasse!
Fake protest against libraries
In 2002, after asking themselves “What would be the most absurd place to picket? What is the one place that no one in their right mind would oppose?,” Improv Everywhere staged a fake protest, “Writers Against Piracy,” at the NYPL. WAP members chanted “Only crooks … check out books!” and said writers should receive royalties from libraries. (This is actually not as crazy as it sounds — I believe that in some countries authors do receive small payments based on library borrowing records. Anybody know more about that?)
Library Lion
In Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen and Kevin Hawkes, a lion visits the library and causes some consternation to some of the librarians. This book makes me cry every time. Thanks, Amanda Newman!
Ghostbusters reprise at the NYPL
To protest budget cuts, Improv Everywhere brought ghosts and Ghostbusters to the New York Public Library in the spring of 2010. Thanks, boingboing!
Pretty fantastic way of celebrating National Book Week
The Twin Hickory Public Library in Glen Allen, Virginia displayed actual human beings reading banned books for National Book Week in 2008. Thanks, BoingBoing!
Please don’t do this.
A library patron’s account is frozen because his book is overdue. He freezes the book and returns it. Ha ha! Hilarious! Of course, the book is ruined and the library makes him pay for it. Library unknown, September 2008. Possibly a hoax — that photograph is a little too perfect, isn’t it? Seems likely this never happened.
National Library Week: Reference Desk
This video, made for National Library Week in April 2008, is very funny and all, but I’m beginning to feel a bit green around the gills at all the librarians-making-fun-of-patrons things that are filling up Library Shenanigans. What I like best are goofy shenanigans perpetrated by students or other library patrons. I’d like to see more of those. Still, this definitely qualifies as a shenanigan, and it made me laugh. Thanks, Emily Lloyd!
Reading Rainbow video: “Check It Out”
Wouldn’t it be great if we got to perform a big long song and dance routine whenever patrons entered the library? Well, I think it would be. Originally aired 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU–IvskmWA&NR=1 Thanks, Diane Westerfield!
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