Artist Miler Lagos has made an igloo out of books, and you can walk inside it. It might remind you of a similar structure built by CC students in 2010. Thanks, BoingBoing!

Two giant book sculptures that seem like library shenanigans: Alicia Martin’s “Biografias” in Madrid and a giant tower of books about Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C. Thanks, BoingBoing!

This video for Rufus Wainright’s “Out of the Game,” starring Helena Bonham Carter as a beautiful bored librarian, contains numerous library shenanigans, including smoking, slapping, sleeping, and more. Thanks, Steve Lawson!

In April 2012, the Widener Library at Harvard University began a pilot project to lend dogs to students. Apparently Yale, M.I.T., and the University of Connecticut have similar projects. Thanks, Carol Dickerson!

A lot of this Super Mario Brothers shenanigan takes place in Tutt Library, Colorado College. We’re glad somebody finally found a use for the little caged-in area at the bottom of our staircase. Thanks, Rebecca Harner!

New York City architect John Locke proposes converting neglected NYC phone booths into tiny little libraries. According to this article, “Using donated books, Locke tried a first version in one uptown neighbourhood that was promptly cleared of books in six hours and had the shelving stolen in a little over a week. His second version in another neighbourhood eight blocks south and pictured above, fared much better, thanks to the change of location and the addition of a Dewey-like organization system and official-looking DUB logo.” Thanks, Dina Wood!

University students in Canada set up tents in their school libraries to raise money for Room to Read in support of literacy. Thanks, Dina Wood!

She’s at it again! Someone has been sneaking around putting wonderful altered-book paper sculptures into libraries and museums in Edinburgh. She says she’s finished. I hope she isn’t. More here.

According to humanlibrary.org, the first human library took place in 2000 in Denmark. Other human libraries are sprouting up all over the world. Here’s an article about one in Utah, where you can “check out” Mormon Turned Pagan, Female Gamer, and Extreme Weather Chaser. Thanks, Aubrey Hirsch!

Includes scenes from Seinfeld, Sesame Street, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, The Golden Girls, No Man of Her Own, The Shawshank Redemption, Philadelphia Story, Philadelphia, Harry and the Hendersons, Party Girl, Ghostbusters, Clean Shaven, Phineas and Ferb, The Music Man, Mr. Bean, Shadow of a Doubt, The Breakfast Club, Only Two Can Play, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, Star Trek: The Animated Series, Twisted Nerve, The Man Who Never Was, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, JAG, The FBI Story, Wings of Desire, Se7en, Harry Potter, With Honors, All the President’s Men, and Strike Up the Band. Thanks, Dina Wood!