Library Humor
TGIF: Excuses, excuses
Posted by Jennifer on 19 September, 2008 in Library Humor, TGIF
What’s the best or worst excuse a patron has given you for why their books were late or lost?
TGIF! Friday trivia
Posted by Jennifer on 5 September, 2008 in Library Humor, TGIF
In 1999, a movie was made from a book published the preceding year. The movie’s title is different from—apparently completely unrelated to—the book’s title. But the two titles are in fact anagrams of one another! Can you name the book and movie?
TGIF! Library games
Posted by Jennifer on 8 August, 2008 in Library Humor, TGIF
The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries website offers 2 Library games called I’ll get over it and Within range.
I’ll get over it
Within Range
To play click on the title of each game highlighted in blue. TGIF!
TGIF! Library cats across the nation
Posted by Jennifer on 1 August, 2008 in Library Humor, TGIF
Click to be taken to a virtual map of all the bookish cats living in libraries. Enjoy!
TGIF!
Posted by Jennifer on 25 July, 2008 in Librarians, Library Humor
We all may know all the movies about the library but did you know that there are many, many songs about the library? There are indeed. Check out the list here from Blisspix.net and enjoy this adorable song about the library from Strawberry Jam I stumbled on from youtube.
In order to spice up this blog, [...]
Great Moments in the History of Technical Services
Posted by Max on 7 November, 2007 in Cataloging, Library Humor
What has been your greatest moment? In the meantime, while you are thinking about that, check out this site.
The Librarians on television
Posted by Christine on 4 November, 2007 in Librarians, Library Humor, Library News, Public Libraries
from Christine…
“The Librarians” premiered on the Australian Broadcasting Commission last week, with much celebration by the profession including special showings and parties. Set in Melbourne, it features characters that you would probably recognise and sets you certainly would. Most people’s favourite is the front door which announces Interactive Learning Centre, with a word processed sign [...]
YouTube as Promotional Tool
Posted by Max on 14 September, 2007 in Librarians, Library Humor, Social Software
I have seen many videos on YouTube being used for promotional purposes but this is one of my favorites. From the description of the video:
This video details a day in the life of a thriving public library system, highlighting the faces and places that make the library the library.
Here are some other favorites:
No Cookies [...]
Library Humor: Chickens in Libraries
Posted by Laura on 20 August, 2007 in Library Humor
A chicken walks into the library. It goes up to the circulation desk and says: “book, bok, bok, boook.”
The librarian hands the chicken a book. It tucks it under his wing and runs out. A while later, the chicken runs back in, throws the first book into the return bin and goes back to the [...]