Library promo in the style of an old-timey silent film. Collingswood Library, Collingswood, New Jersey, July 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Wx25Mk-Ek (Thanks, Joan Petit!)

Awful Library Books blog, with examples of books from public libraries all over the U.S. Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, public librarians in Michigan. awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com/ (Thanks, BoingBoing!)

Aaron Andzick’s commercial for the re-opening of the Fairfield County Library, Fairfield, MA, 2009. http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/a121f641d8/library-reopening-aaron-andzik-from-aaron-andzik When’s the last time you were at the library-ibrary-ibrary-ibrary?

High school student keeps a banned-books lending library in her locker. Unknown American high school, 2009. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/24/kid-keeping-a-lendin.html (Thanks, BoingBoing!)

Cards from Columbia University library, 2009. http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/15/blinds-made-from-car.html (Thanks, BoingBoing!)

Relay race in Mudd Library, Oberlin College, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0b0owBZEOg (Thanks, Ed Vermue!)

The Resourcerer’s Apprentice. Mudd Library, Oberlin College, 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k8tYano3bs “Behind the scenes”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXYjpwb8mBI (Thanks, Ed Vermue!)

Happy Tree Friends: Books of Fury. Animated, but not for kids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dom9tmslwcw/ (Thanks, Diane Westerfield!)

Tutt Library, Colorado College, January 2009. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)

Library unknown, first aired November 5, 1990 (Season 1, Episode 16). http://www.youtube.comwatch?v=TGjnuV1iIWc