“Kiwi the miniature therapy horse was awarded an advanced degree today at UNC Health Sciences Library — a Master of Library Shenanigans.”
(As far as I know, this degree is not affiliated with the Library Shenanigans blog.)
Thanks, Joan Petit!
I went on a road trip with my family and a whole bunch of library shenanigans (and one museum shenanigan) piled up.
The Hermitage Museum keeps 74 cats on site to protect its treasures from rodents!
Gloria Gaynor disco party at the Library of Congress in May, yes, this is for real. You know you wish you could go.
“Quirky photo project” by Elise Schimke at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
The Folger Shakespeare Library apparently gets pretty cold, but researchers can borrow hand-knit shawls while on site. Thanks, Lynne M. Thomas!
And speaking of library-themed clothing, library book leggings are available from Kickin Leggings (this ad showed up in my Facebook feed, so Facebook isn’t totally useless I guess).
The Librarie Mollat, a bookstore in Bordeaux, France, has been Instagramming images of their employees and customers with book covers. Some of them are so perfectly matched it seems unreal!
Thanks, Tom McBride and Bored Panda.
In celebration of International Women’s Day, March 8, 2016, we uploaded our finding aids to the collections of the papers of three women:
Lillian de la Torre, 1960
Writer and Playwright
Lillian de la Torre (1902-1993)
Inez Johnson Lewis, undated
Educator, Superintendent of Schools, and State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Inez Johnson Lewis (1875-1964)
Marianne Stoller, 1977
Colorado College Anthropology Professor Emerita
Marianne Stoller (1929-2015)
This work of art by Jorge Méndez Blake has been shown in several galleries, and images of it are all over the web under the title “The Impact of a Book” and “L’impact d’un livre.” The artist’s title for the piece is Il Castillo / The Castle, after the title of the Kafka book at the bottom of the bricks.
Thanks, Emma Mitchell!
Loganberry Books in Cleveland, Ohio turned all the male-authored books in the store page-edges-out to draw attention to women authors during Women’s History Month.
Thanks, Lisa Lister!
Libraries and librarians never let me down at Valentine’s Day. The Ramsey County Library posted this excellent valentine on their Facebook page:
And the Loyola University Library in Chicago, following the lead of several other libraries, put together a Valentine’s Day display of “blind date” books wrapped in brown paper:
(Thanks, Amy Shuffelton!)
See also this post.
Thanks, Netanel Ganin and the Facebook group Troublesome Catalogers and Magical Metadata Fairies.
Check out this sign at the library of the Howard University School of Law.
Thanks, Maryann Corbett!
Addendum (same day): Here’s a related image, from the Facebook page of The Bookloft in Massachusetts. Thanks, Lisa Lister!
Sometimes the littlest library shenanigans are the best library shenanigans, like when your coworker makes you laugh by goofing around with the foam book supports,
or when your friend Nick Humez sends you a cartoon about the Dewey Decimal System.