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Tilda Swinton as Libraries
Sometimes Twitter really gets it
https://mobile.twitter.com/JudeAtwood/status/1468030063819964424
Boris Johnson and the revenge of the school librarian
Apparently, one of the books behind him is Roald Dahl’s The Twits, though we can’t see it.
Thanks, Janey Street Thornton!
CC students build the library in Minecraft!
Colorado College students, sent home at Spring Break to help stop the spread of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), are recreating the whole campus virtually in Minecraft! Yes! They are! And Tutt Library is already built!
Eliza Merrall, Katie Wang, Arity Sherwood, Patrick McGinnis, and Daniel Turevski are the freaking AWESOME ARTIST-GENIUSES who started up the project:
They soon learned that incoming first year students, members of the class of 2024, had a similar idea:
The Merrall et. al. version of Tutt Library is amazingly detailed and accurate. Here’s the south entrance, with the statue of Chas, in real life:
and in Minecraft:
Even the interiors are detailed and accurate. At least one librarian — we’re not saying who — has made sure his office has correct signage.
Thank you, CC minecrafters, for brightening up all of our quarantines and making us miss each other even more than before!
ADDITION, April 6: two draft images from the project:
(Papercut is the unfortunately-named print service the CC library uses)
a torch! and a bat!
“Horoscopes for Librarians”
“Horoscopes for Librarians” by Mayur Chauhan and Sally Miller in McSweeney’s is funny even if you don’t care about astrology. Thanks, WoodyGuth3!
little goofs
Sometimes the littlest library shenanigans are the best library shenanigans, like when your coworker makes you laugh by goofing around with the foam book supports,
or when your friend Nick Humez sends you a cartoon about the Dewey Decimal System.
library romance
Your hardworking blogstress learned recently of a romantic library shenanigan at Tutt Library, Colorado College in the spring of 1988. Two students, hearing that a friend planned “an evening of study and courtship” at the library that evening, procured tuxedos, an ice bucket, champagne, and glasses; with white linen napkins over over one arm, they served the couple forthwith. According to my source, “there was some followup from then Librarian and classicist John Sheridan, who felt the need to be severe.”
dead mouse is not in database.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at the University of Reading found a dead mouse in its 155-year-old “perpetual mouse trap.” Rest in peace, little mouse. Your deed shall live forever in the records of the museum. Thanks, Lynne M. Thomas!
books from the donation bin
“Weird Eddie” keeps track of unusual books donated to his library here.
I might try to make this:
Thanks, Suzie DeGrasse!
preparing for the big blizzard
This map has been showing up all over Facebook and Twitter this week. I’m not sure who originally created it, but the earliest example I can find is a Facebook post from Peace Hill Press in Virginia. It’s also been shared by the Prince William Library and the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Virginia and by Riverhead Books in New York.
Sad Metadata Kitty
I only get about half of these, but I’m guessing some of you will get them all. And they take submissions! I know some of you are talented LOLcat-makers. Thanks, Lynne M. Thomas!
Library Shenanigans 