Posts filed under ‘video’
Skateboarding dog supports the NYPL
The New York Public library invited Tillman, the skateboarding dog, to skate in its main branch in support of public libraries. Turns out his favorite books are Clifford the Big Red Dog and Voltaire’s Candide. Thanks, Ruth Hughes and Karen Nipps!
Ain’t Got No Rhythm — Phineas and Ferb
Sherman, a drummer in a rock band, loses his sense of rhythm after falling asleep in a metronome factory. Now he works in a library. But look at the way he’s stamping those books! He DOES have rhythm! From the “Dude, We’re Getting the Band Back Together” episode of Phineas and Ferb on the Disney Channel, first aired in 2009. Thanks, Deborah Leslie and Christian Dupont.
New Spice: Study Like a Scholar, Scholar
Library ad spoofing recent Old Spice ads. Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University. Did you know that eight of five dentists say that studying in the library is six bajillion times more effective than studying in your shower? Thanks, Lynne Thomas!
DANCE This Flash Mob @ Seattle Library
Choreographed dance performance at the Seattle Public Library, July 1, 2010. To the tune of Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance with Somebody.” Thanks, Daryll Stevens!
“I’m an Archivist” response to Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart made fun of the idea of the master’s degree in archives management on The Daily Show on November 11, 2009. David Kay, M.L.S., responded with a song to the tune of Monty Python’s “Lumberjack Song.” I like the line “It might seem very funny that we’re a professional trade, ha ha!” The full lyrics appear in The Metropolitan Archivist, Vol. 16, No. 2, Summer 2010. Thanks, David Kay.
Addition: singalong version at youtube.
UPDATE July 2012: WoodyGuth3’s “The Ballad of David Kay, MLS” describes another shenanigan perpetrated by the same guy: “Based on a true story from an ALA-accredited library school. At the time, David Kay, MLS was president of the Queens College Library and Information Studies Student Association (qcLISSA) and helped lead a student protest with direct action against the University’s OCT (Office of Converging Technologies) when library proxies were broken and students were unable to do their homework and access library materials remotely and offsite. Forty-eight hours later, after leading seven students to confront the Director of OCT in his office, the broken proxy service was replaced, and word quickly spread that “qcLISSA fought the OCT and the OCT finally lost!” Students even celebrated with cake and punch! Recorded by WoodyGuth3 in May 2012 for Brooklyn Blowback TV.” Thanks, David Kay!
I’m Handsome. You’re Pretty.
The Old Spice guy is a fan of libraries. Or anyway he’s willing to pretend to be. Here’s the video, and here’s some context, and here’s some more context. Thanks, Steve Lawson!
Librarians do GaGa
Librarians and library students tell you that you can use their ca-ca-catalog (don’t forget the databases). I want to be friends with all of these people. Cameo appearance by Nancy Pearl! May 2010, University of Washington’s iSchool. Thanks, Suzie DeGrasse, Kris Kanthak, Gail Plummer-Davis,and Jennifer Gresham!
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!
How to Prank Librarians
Squidoo gives us some advice on pranking librarians. There’s a video with a decent joke about a chicken in a library, too. The joketeller remembers partway through that chickens are female, which is nice.
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!
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