Posts filed under ‘video’
Jus Reign The Library Study Song
I’m not sure what library this is, anybody know? Thanks, Dina Wood!
Library dance parties
Several institutions of higher learning offer (or suffer) library dance parties during exam week. Oberlin College’s five-minute dance breaks recently got some NPR coverage; this video shows a sampling (sans music) at about 1:07 and forward. The University of Montana, Allegheny College, the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, the College of Charleston, the University of Virginia, the University of Miami, and many others also host (deliberately or not) dance parties small and large. Thanks, Carol Dickerson, Ray English, and others!
Surprise dance at the UNL library
Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln perform a choreographed dance to My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers” during the university’s “dead week” in December 2010. The youtube description calls it a flash mob, but to my mind a flash mob would be bigger and perhaps less choreographed; this seems more like a show. Excellent shenanigan, whatever they may call it. Thanks, Gwen Gregory!
Librarians do not react to farts.
Kid takes his fart machine to the library. Notice that the librarians are unfailingly professional at all times; they don’t react at all. Some of the patrons react, but politely. It’s a triumph of the human spirit, really.
Homage to Aladdin (“A Whole New Libe”)
In the summer of 2010, the staff and students at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota made this video introduction to the library for first year students. There’s singing! Thanks, Carol Dickerson.
Dancing archives box
Archie Archives of the Regional History Center at Northern Illinois University dances at a Welcome Days event for first year students. Archie, your bright red bow tie is evocative of nerdiness and Chippendales at the same time, and goes very well with your flip flops … well done all around. And it seems the students like you. Thanks, Lynne Thomas!
I Love the Archives at the Jewish Museum of Maryland
A 2008 commercial spawns an XKCD comic, which spawns a video, which spawns a Derangement and Description comic, which spawns a video at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. And every single thing in this chain is awesome (though only the last two are library shenanigans). Thanks, Lynne Thomas!
“Blond joke for intellectuals”
Several people have sent me links to this short video, but I’m not really interested in blond jokes, so I didn’t click in. Finally today I found out it’s a library shenanigan. Thanks, Dina Wood!
Dewey Decimal Rap
Hi, my name is Melville Dewey! Nice to meet you, how you doing? This is surprisingly catchy and funny. New Hanover County Public Library, Wilmington, North Carolina, 2009. Make sure to watch the excellent dance moves at the end. Other library song videos made by library staff or library school students include Libraries Will Survive and I Want to Be a Librarian. And of course there are plenty of videos made by students or other patrons, like Library Thriller or the excellent Library Girl.
87th Annual Masters of Library Science Croquet Tournament
New Hanover County Public Library, Wilmington, North Carolina, 2010. This “croquet tournament” is more like miniature golf, with “holes” in various departments of the library. Thanks, David Weinstock!
Library Shenanigans 