Library Shenanigans

Forbes Library staff shenanigans

The staff of the Forbes Library in Northampton, Massachusetts have put together some shenaniganny videos:

June 19, 2015 at 2:06 pm Leave a comment

shenanigans shenanigan

Not library related. Thanks, Steve Lawson, for calling the whole purpose of this blog into question.

June 18, 2015 at 11:33 am Leave a comment

check-out card socks

A must-have for all library-lovers! Thanks, Jennifer Resnick (who first sent me the link) and Steve Lawson (who reminded me about it).

June 18, 2015 at 11:13 am 2 comments

snogging dogs sculpture

Janine Ashbless has kindly provided a photograph of this sculpture of “snoggin dogs” at the Leeds Central Library in England. Thanks, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt!

June 18, 2015 at 11:04 am Leave a comment

fun with encyclopedias, part 3

Some clever high school student has discovered that the spines of the World Book encyclopedia can be rearranged to spell out “Boob Dick.” (As you may recall, “Dork Bowl” is also a possibility.) Thanks, Steve Lawson!

June 18, 2015 at 10:56 am Leave a comment

the yeti returns!

A yeti was spotted in Tutt Library twice in the spring of 2015, but we have no photo documentation of the events. (The photo at left is from a previous sighting.) On at least one of these occasions, the yeti wore a pink felt heart on his or her chest stating “YETI [heart] LIBRARY” and tried to check out Where the Wild Things Are and a picture book about monsters, but was unwilling to provide a gold card.

The zine for the 2015 Tutt Library Annual Haiku contest, available in the Colorado College Zine Collection, contains two yeti-related haiku/senryu/non-haiku. The first, by yours truly, reads: a yeti visits / its heart says it loves this place / yeti, we do too. The second, attributed to the yeti, reads:

YETI LORVE LIBRARYRE
YETI LORVE BOOKS AND POMES
YETI NOT COUNT SILLBULLS
WHAT SILBBULL ANYWAY

June 18, 2015 at 10:20 am Leave a comment

The easter bunny’s WHAT?!

The easter bunny’s WHAT?! Library barcode placement fails. (The answer in the case of the easter bunny is “assistant,” and it’s a skunk.) Here’s another fail. Thanks, Jonathan Caws-Elwitt!

May 1, 2015 at 9:59 am Leave a comment

“Check It Out” Taylor Swift parody

The Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library is responsible for this video. Thanks, Dina Wood!

April 21, 2015 at 7:09 pm Leave a comment

Yoda in a medieval manuscript!

British Library curator Julian Harrison found an illustration of a creature who is clearly Yoda in a medieval French manuscript. According to the Onion’s A.V. Club, Harrison “says it’s obviously not Yoda, just a thing that looks like Yoda, but we think he’s just covering up for the fact that Yoda’s existence in medieval France throws everything we know about history into disarray.” Thanks, Steve Lawson!

April 20, 2015 at 2:37 pm Leave a comment

little surprises at the library

University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. The text with this image is “There’s a guy at my University who goes by the name, Kush Jenkins, that leaves people weed in the library.” Thanks, Steve Lawson!

April 19, 2015 at 6:03 pm Leave a comment