Betty Glover Library Workout Tape Ad.
Hayden Library, Arizona State University, 1987.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k8BKX2eQ0Q

Many libraries, many places, time immemorial-ongoing.
Students at many colleges and universities claim that sex in the stacks is common, sometimes even a rite of passage before graduation. It is unknown how much actual sex in libraries takes place, but a review of the literature and an informal poll suggest that sex in the stacks is more of a myth than a reality. http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=505583, http://library.duke.edu/blogs/answerperson/perkins-lobby-edition/

Streaking. library unknown, 1970s. Image from The Library in America (Facts on File, 1986). http://www.txla.org/pubs/tlj75_2/libs.html

UC-Berkeley library, finals week, 2008. http://sfist.com/2008/12/22/naked_ucberkeley_streakers_jiggle_f.php

Norlin Library, University of Colorado – Boulder, 2004 (an annual sorority tradition?) http://www.collegehumor.com/video:40838 WARNING: you’ll have to register to see this (rather tame) streak, and the host page, “College Humor,” contains porn links.

Hamilton College Streaking Team annual streak. Burke Library, Hamilton College. Article: http://www.hamilton.edu/levitt/Insights/Herring_article_2008.pdf Blog entry: http://www.jockandbuttons.com/hamiltonstreaks/gq.html (Thanks, Katherine Collett!)

Knoxville Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, May 1, 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_EvqXJx44
(Thanks, Marianne Lenox!)

Streaking. Tutt Library, Colorado College, 1992. Photo from CC yearbook.

Streaking. Tutt Library, Colorado College, March 5, 1976. Streakers zoom past Sallie Payne Morgan, former Dean of Women at CC. The CC yearbook for 1976 describes this streak as an annual event.

Similarly, the cross country team at Grinnell College has an annual streak including the library (thanks, Catherine Rod!) and the Ultimate Frisbee Team streaks through the library every spring during finals at Oberlin College, too (thanks, Ed Vermue!).

Tutt Library, Colorado College, 1994-ongoing. Students dress up the statue of Charles Leaming Tutt, Jr. (“Chas”), for whom Tutt Library is named. The statue was installed in front of the library in 1992. The earliest CC Archives photograph of a statue decoration is from 1994. Many more images at www.flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary/sets/72157627707737080/.