Posted in Humor, Libraries, Tv / Video on Thursday, April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
ALA has uploaded a series of humorous National Library Week videos to YouTube.
My favorite is the National Library Week: College Reference Desk
[video ca. 2 min]
It’s not too late to enjoy!
Posted in Humor, Tv / Video on Monday, March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
‘Tis the time when bugs of all sorts are doing their rounds… This little video reveals the secret behind all those “decorated” library books: Doodlebug by Nick Baker.
[video ca. 30 sec]
Posted in Clever, Humor on Monday, February 18, 2008 | No Comments »
These library-themed wedding invitations are marvellous! I especially like this humorous comment:
“As a fellow librarian I am outraged by your casual use of the Dewey Decimal System. 365.49? Penal and related institutions? Are you saying your marriage is like a jail sentence? How about 306 for culture and institutions, or 021 for library relationships?”
Via librarian.net.
Posted in Humor, Tv / Video on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | No Comments »
[video ca. 30 sec]
Via LibrarianInBlack.
Posted in Humor, Word soup, tagged ILS on Saturday, February 2, 2008 | No Comments »
My favorite excuse (courtesy of The Excuse Generator) for not doing anything about your clunky ILS is this:
Posted in Clever, Gaming, Humor, Tv / Video, Word soup, tagged ACRL, ALA on Thursday, January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
World of Warcraft commercial parody - Belf Librarian from Topeka Library:
“Lysistrata is a Blood Elf Hunter. She is also a librarian. This video is a parody of the popular Mr T. and Shatner commercials”
[video ca. 1.5 min]
I know I’m not the only librarian who plays WoW. Clearly I’m also not the only librarian who enjoys [...]
Posted in Cataloging, Humor, tagged movies on Monday, January 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The trailer for AACR2: The Movie is up!
[video ca. 2.5 min]
- Let me ask you something: You ever meet anyone you didn’t catalog?
- I haven’t cataloged you yet.
Fantastic!
Via The Cataloguing Librarian.
Posted in Clever, Humor on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 | No Comments »
Why not start your new year with a laugh:
Explore Your Inner Librarian. I especially enjoyed the photoes of real librarians out there that deviate from the worn ‘old-lady-with-bun-and-glasses’ stereotype. Found via LibrarianInBlack.
“Steroid” scandal at major league libraries:
“More than half of the systems responsible for managing the nearly 17 million titles in the Library of Congress [...]
Posted in Clever, Humor, Language, tagged haikus on Wednesday, December 5, 2007 | No Comments »
At a recent RLG event about managing print collections in a digital era, the participants made unexpected constributions:
“In the coming weeks we’ll be sharing outcomes and lessons learned. I’ll start that process today by sharing the context-setting documents we developed for the program. They happen to be in the shape of haiku, the Japanese poetic form consisting [...]
Posted in Humor, People, Word soup, tagged IL2007 on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 | No Comments »
im in ur kitchen eatin ur kashewz
(I forgot my conferencing munchies home. It seems my hubby found them. )
