Gorgeous desk made of recycled books and bound journals at Delft University in the Netherlands. And here are images of a similarly gorgeous project. Thanks, David Weinstock!

The full text of Hal Draper’s “MS Fnd in a Lbry,” a satire on information overload published in 1961, is now available online. Here’s the Wikipedia entry to give you the full back story.  Thanks, Daryll Stevens! Or should that be Drll Stvns?

Kid takes his fart machine to the library. Notice that the librarians are unfailingly professional at all times; they don’t react at all. Some of the patrons react, but politely. It’s a triumph of the human spirit, really.

In the summer of 2010, the staff and students at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota made this video introduction to the library for first year students. There’s singing! Thanks, Carol Dickerson.

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!