Posts filed under ‘video’
CC students respond to library annoyances
The “Let’s CC the World” Tumblr feed has a couple of funny visual aids for library annoyances:
When People Use the Library as a Place to Socialize (featuring a panda!)
and
When You Suddenly Lose Service in the Library (featuring Doctor Who!).
It’s nice to know that some students have the same crazy love for the library as we librarians do! Thanks, Dina Wood, for pointing these out to me.
Yale card catalog stop motion
60-second stop motion film starring Yale University’s card catalog (Sterling Memorial Library). Thanks, Emily Lloyd!
For card catalog aficionados: here’s the abstract of Nicholson Baker’s 1996 article in the New Yorker (subscribers can login and read the whole thing), later reprinted in his essay collection The Size of Thoughts. And you could make pilgrimage to the Library Company of Philadelphia, founded 1731: ask to see the card catalog in the basement — it contains handwritten cards!
Should we count lip-synching as a shenanigan?
This video for Rufus Wainright’s “Out of the Game,” starring Helena Bonham Carter as a beautiful bored librarian, contains numerous library shenanigans, including smoking, slapping, sleeping, and more. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Super Mario Brothers shenanigan
A lot of this Super Mario Brothers shenanigan takes place in Tutt Library, Colorado College. We’re glad somebody finally found a use for the little caged-in area at the bottom of our staircase. Thanks, Rebecca Harner!
Ohio Greene County Public Library’s giant library montage
Includes scenes from Seinfeld, Sesame Street, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Golden Girls, No Man of Her Own, The Shawshank Redemption, Philadelphia Story, Philadelphia, Harry and the Hendersons, Party Girl, Ghostbusters, Clean Shaven, Phineas and Ferb, The Music Man, Mr. Bean, Shadow of a Doubt, The Breakfast Club, Only Two Can Play, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Twisted Nerve, The Man Who Never Was, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, JAG, The FBI Story, Wings of Desire, Se7en, Harry Potter, With Honors, All the President’s Men, and Strike Up the Band. Thanks, Dina Wood!
The Joy of Books
More of a bookstore shenanigan than a library shenanigan. Perpetrated by … the books themselves! Thanks, Amy Brooks and others.
All night scavenger hunt at the NYPL!
This seems to be legitimate even though the blog posting is from April 1. The NYPL is hosting an all night scavenger hunt on May 20, 2011 as part of its Find the Future game. (Watch the trailer!) 500 lucky guests will search for historical objects such as Charles Dickens’s letter opener (pictured), with a handle made from the paw of his pet cat Bob. Thanks, Dina Wood!
book artist shenanigans
Many artists’ books are playful and shenaniganish, but there are a couple who seem particularly worthy of mention on Library Shenanigans. One is Brian Dettmer, whose “book autopsies” might be considered a librarian’s nightmare: he carves out the illustrations in encyclopedias, dictionaries, and other books and turns them into three-dimensional book sculptures.
Another is Zach Gage, whose ANTAGONISTIC BOOKS set (Danger and Curiosity) self-destruct in different ways; each can only be “read” once.
Can a Book Save Your Life?
Can a book save your life? Well, not really. And with a Kindle you’ll die quickly. This isn’t really a library shenanigan, just a book shenanigan. I wonder if older books, with leather covers, might have offered more resistance? Thanks, Sarah J. Sloat!
Kitten Needs a Job
This video from SaveOhioLibraries.com (with the help of the Capital Area Humane Society) points out how public libraries help people find work. I like when the kitten prints out her resume. If you want more, see the hat outtakes! Thanks, Dina Wood!
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