Paradoxymoron is a 1996 painting (with a surprise) by Patrick Hughes currently hanging in the basement of the British Library in London. Here’s a video that shows it off nicely. Thanks, Steve Lawson!

Crescat Graffiti, Vita Excolaturdocuments graffiti in the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago. Quinn Dombrowski began the project in 2007. It’s now a blog, a book, and a massive collection of photographs. Thanks, Steve Lawson!

Wouldn’t it be great if we got to perform a big long song and dance routine whenever patrons entered the library? Well, I think it would be. Originally aired 1983. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU–IvskmWA&NR=1 Thanks, Diane Westerfield!

Library staff perform the chicken dance with book trucks at the Hartzler Library at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisburg, Virginia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whoL0m15rE4. Thanks, Anna Creech!

The Hackney Bunch, Hackney Library, Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina, February 2010. Video introducing the library staff at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeMUOQR8kac. Thanks, Anna Creech!

Silent dance party at Gould Library at Carleton College (and elsewhere on campus too), December 2009. Playlist decided in advance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKhDmAAiE0E and more at Carleton’s own site, here: http://apps.carleton.edu/admissions/activities/silent_dance_party/. (Thanks, Steve Lawson!)

The folks at Sublime Stitching have a “Sexy Librarians” set of embroidery patterns here. Thanks, BoingBoing!

Book 2 in Jarrett J. Krosoczka’s Lunch Lady series. The librarians are the villains — they want to stop kids from playing video games. During a battle with the lunch ladies, the librarians release beasts from library books (a lion from The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; three little pigs from The Three Little Pigs, and so on.) The lunch ladies use their hairnet nets to capture the librarians. After they triumph, the lunch ladies set up a Read-a-thon where students read books while waiting for their turn on the new X-Station 5000. Find this book in a library near you using Open Worldcat.

In Venezuela in 2007, mules carry a lending-library of books to people in remote areas. Not really a shenanigan, more of a wonderful idea, but still, mules carrying books! That’s cool. More here. (Thanks, BoingBoing!)

Architect Peter Archer designed a hobbit house to hold a private library. Reported in 2007, location unclear but probably Chester County, Pennsylvania. More here. (Thanks, BoingBoing!)