{"id":3036,"date":"2017-02-15T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T22:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:58:59","slug":"valentines-day-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2017\/02\/15\/valentines-day-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s Day shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries and librarians never let me down at Valentine&#8217;s Day. The Ramsey County Library posted this excellent valentine on their Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3042\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/isbn.jpg\" alt=\"isbn\" width=\"564\" height=\"613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/isbn.jpg 564w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/isbn-276x300.jpg 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 564px) 100vw, 564px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And the Loyola University Library in Chicago, following the lead of <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/01\/blind-date-with-a-book\/\">several other libraries<\/a>, put together a Valentine&#8217;s Day display of &#8220;blind date&#8221; books wrapped in brown paper:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3052\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/blind.jpg\" alt=\"blind\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/blind.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/blind-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/blind-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/blind-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/02\/blind-624x832.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luc.edu\/education\/about\/faculty\/shuffeltonamy.shtml\">Amy Shuffelton<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/22\/late-library-valentines\/\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries and librarians never let me down at Valentine&#8217;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&#8217;s Day display of &#8220;blind date&#8221; books wrapped in brown paper: (Thanks, Amy Shuffelton!) See also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-MY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3926,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}