{"id":3674,"date":"2011-04-22T22:26:56","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T22:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:44","slug":"its-a-comic-its-a-guide-to-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/04\/22\/its-a-comic-its-a-guide-to-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a comic &#8212; it&#8217;s a guide to the library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mcpherson.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Library-of-the-Living-Dead-Online-Edition.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1042\" title=\"library-guide-zombie\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/library-guide-zombie.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The clever librarians at Miller Library at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas have made a guide to the library disguised as a comic book, <em>Library of the Living Dead<\/em>. The library guide part is fairly straightforward, but there&#8217;s a nice action-filled story to put the information in context (sort of). My favorite part is probably when the zombies get extra excited about <em>librarian<\/em> brains. Unfortunately, the Miller Library uses the Dewey Decimal system (most academic libraries use Library of Congress). Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mcpherson.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/our-zombie-guide-is-finished\/\">announcement<\/a>, and here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mcpherson.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Library-of-the-Living-Dead-Online-Edition.pdf\">comic<\/a>. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">BoingBoing<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clever librarians at Miller Library at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas have made a guide to the library disguised as a comic book, Library of the Living Dead. The library guide part is fairly straightforward, but there&#8217;s a nice action-filled story to put the information in context (sort of). My favorite part is probably [&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-3674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Xg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674","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=3674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3674\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}