Here’s a vision of an “electronic home library” from a 1959 newspaper. Note the projection of text onto the ceiling. Thanks, BoingBoing and Paleo-Future!

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!

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!

This is one that may take some explaining when people of the future are studying Library Shenanigans. You see, people of the future, in mid-2010 some people were very upset at the idea of a mosque being built in New York City a few blocks from the place where the Twin Towers used to stand. The people who were upset about this were not, generally, considered to be intellectuals. So this is a response to that, and mocks those people … rather amusingly, and with some bad words. Thanks, Emily Lloyd!

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!

Artist Matej Kren uses books and mirrors to create a narrow space for the viewer that evokes “a sensation of sublime terror.” Why books? “Chosen because of their nature as seat of knowledge, as symbols of intrinsically human free thought, books are here ‘used’ as raw materials for an artistic process existing and communicating on many distinct levels.” Thanks, BoingBoing!

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.

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!