Library Shenanigans
streaking, singing, and other funny stuff people have done in
and about libraries
by Jessy
Randall, Curator of Special
Collections, Tutt Library,
Colorado College
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Summer of Reading |
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Librarian Lays Down
the Law |
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Bill Clinton Library |
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Several short films
starring Shad Kunkle |
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Short Pencil Saga |
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The Librarian Song |
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The Librarian: A Mockumentary |
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Charlie Goes Out |
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Archie McPhee offers
at least three excellent library shenaniganish products: |
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Living
at the library Brown Science Library, Brown University, December 2007 http://www.ivygateblog.com/blog/2007/12/brown_student_lives_in_24hour_library.html Grant Gilles moved into a 24-hour library for about a week. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!) |
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Surfing
NLA National Library of Australia, December 14, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvKntJKctoU |
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Tiger Tales Precision
Book Truck Drill Team |
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Library
poetry, art, and comics Snakeskin online magazine, February 2005 http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~simmers/111spred.htm With links to a few other library poems available online. The image at left shows Giselle Restrepo's "The Corset," made from library check-out cards. |
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Tetris
in the library Shields Library, UC-Davis, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4DicoDiCk See also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIRWoo9qrU at Brown University. |
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Online library comic
strips |
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Common Misconceptions
about the Eden Prairie Library |
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Pac-Man
reenacted by humans UGLi (Undergraduate Library), University of Michigan, 2005 http://www.boingboing.net/2005/12/21/pac-man-reenacted-by.html http://www-personal.umich.edu/~austincb/pacman/pacamajig.mov |
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How I Have Fun at
the Library |
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Reference Question
of the Week |
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Tour of Info Island |
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Lest the Keepers of
the Book Wreak a Terrible Vengeance |
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Conan the Librarian |
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Computer
start-up sound from prangstgrüp Columbia University library?, 2005 http://www.ronniedelcarmen.com/blog1/2005/10/prangstgrup-videos-if-laptop-startup.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt1bgsvsWms |
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Gorilla Librarian |
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Ninja Librarian |
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Japanese Game Show |
 www.cumb.org |
Orgo
Night Butler Library, Columbia University, 1960s-ongoing (or maybe 1980s-ongoing) The Columbia University Marching Band plays at 11:59 p.m. the night before the Organic Chemistry final. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_University_Marching_Band |
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Awkward dancing |
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Study breakdancing |
 www.brownlee.org/RichHS1956 |
Borrowing
shenanigan Rich (now Rich East) High School Library, Park Forest, Illinois, 1961 The senior class attempted to check out all the books from the library. They got about halfway done before the library staff stopped allowing checkouts. |
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March of the Librarians
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"Tutt Crunch"
relay race |
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Introducing the book |
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Interval Library |
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Library
Dominoes Funk ACES Library, University of Illinois, 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwihz7iZlx0 |
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The L-Team |
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"A
Star Wars Adventure" Whittier College Library, March 16, 2006 A light sabre battle in the stacks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2WxwzGY42Q |
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Betty Glover Library
Workout Tape Ad |
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Sex
in the stacks Many libraries, many places, time immemorial-ongoing Students at many colleges and universities claim that sex in the stacks is common, sometimes even a rite of passage before graduation. It is unknown how much actual sex in libraries takes place, but a review of the literature and an informal poll suggest that sex in the stacks is more of a myth than a reality. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=505583 http://library.duke.edu/blogs/answerperson/perkins-lobby-edition/ |
 The Library in America (Facts on File, 1986). |
Streaking
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Streaking |
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Streaking Knoxville Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, May 1, 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_EvqXJx44 (Thanks, Marianne Lenox!) |
 1976 CC Nugget |
Streaking Tutt Library, Colorado College, March 5, 1976 Streakers zoom past Sallie Payne Morgan, former Dean of Women at CC. The yearbook for 1976 describes this streak as an annual event. |
 Oct. 16, 1992 CC Catalyst |
Streaking |
 CC Special Collections |
Chas
in costume Tutt Library, Colorado College, 1970s-ongoing Students dress up the statue of Charles Leaming Tutt, Jr. ("Chas") in various ways. |
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No cookies in the
library |
 vinylsolution.homestead.com |
"The Vinyl Solution" |
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Peep Research:
a study of small fluffy creatures and library research Staley Library, Millikin University, 2003 http://www.millikin.edu/staley/peeps/ |
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Library
Musical from prangstgrüp Butler Library, Columbia University, 2004 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaLf8FpO6p8 http://www.arrivistepress.com/February04/zbendinerfeaturewriter2nd0204.shtml |
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Angry Librarian |
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Fun
in the library |
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Librarian
Trading Cards |
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"All
lit up for exams" (the f-word spelled out in library windows) |
 http://librarianavengers.org |
Small-time shenanigans |
Know any other library shenanigans?
Email the details to jrandall@coloradocollege.edu.