Posts filed under ‘public libraries’
Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite
Greene: Don’t Let the Bedbugs Bite (Denver Post article). Denver Public Library, September 22, 2009. http://www.denverpost.com/news/frontpage/ci_13390297 This one is not a lighthearted shenanigan but a sad story. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)
Addendum, August 2012: bedbugs shut down a library in Middletown, CT. Thanks, David Weinstock!
Awful Library Books
Awful Library Books blog, with examples of books from public libraries all over the U.S. Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, public librarians in Michigan. awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/ (Thanks, BoingBoing!)
Aaron Andzik's commercial
Aaron Andzick’s commercial for the re-opening of the Fairfield County Library, Fairfield, MA, 2009. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a121f641d8/library-reopening-aaron-andzik-from-aaron-andzik When’s the last time you were at the library-ibrary-ibrary-ibrary?
Summer of Reading
Denver Public Library, 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AppCIzJD84 A large cat plays Dance Dance Revolution at the library, and more.
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.
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!)
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
Overheard
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.)
Library dominoes
Funk ACES Library, University of Illinois, 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwihz7iZlx0
Addendum, April 1, 2014 (thanks, Steve Lawson!) The London Public Library in California put together a similar shenanigan in March of 2014:
The vinyl solution
Austin Public Library, 1996-1997. As an act of civil disobedience in protest of a library’s phasing-out of records, a patron borrowed 150 LPs and kept them out for many months. http://www.austinchronicle.com/issues/vol15/issue37/pols.library.html
Library Shenanigans 