The parking garage for the Kansas City Public Library looks like a shelf of books! Awesome. Why can’t all parking garages be works of art? (Now I’m thinking of a parking garage in my hometown, Rochester NY, which looked a lot like the Guggenheim.) The people of Kansas City even had some say in which titles would be included. Thanks, BoingBoing!

In Audrey Niffenegger’s The Night Bookmobile (Abrams ComicArts, 2010), each night bookmobile is full of all the books its visitor has ever read — no more, no less. Imagine!

It’s a beautifully-drawn graphic novel mostly about books, love, loneliness, death, and identity, but it’s also about librarianship, I suppose. You can read it in one sitting, but I bet you’ll think about it for much, much longer, whether you’re a librarian or not.

Thanks, Marianne Aldrich.

On Saturday, November 13, 2010, more than 1800 libraries in the U.S. and elsewhere will celebrate National Gaming Day by providing board games, video games, and other kinds of games for their patrons to play.

This is one of those shenanigans that kinda loses its punch by being library-sanctioned. But, game on, gamers, and those to whom the games are new. Thanks, BoingBoing!

photo by Scott Johnson

Colorado College student Max Robillard, of CC’s Integrative Design Club, created a small jungle at CC’s Tutt Library using plants found throughout the building. He says:

“I saw it as a simple, easy public space intervention. I just wanted to give people in the library something new, and to offer them a pseudo-shelter, or retreat, from the public space that the library is. My friends and I put it together on Sunday afternoon, and we took it down Monday night.”

Thanks, Carol Dickerson!