Librarians and Cocktails Button

Available From: www.cafepress.com
Created by: The Reader's Shop

Price: $4.00

URL: http://www.cafepress.com/+librarians_cocktailsbr_button,20108652

Contributed by: Lisa Herning

The Reader's Shop at CafePress.com is offering this unique button for librarian and cocktail lovers alike. The button features a quote from Cheif Librarian of the Manchester Public Librarie Louis Stanley Jast which reads "Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail on the other."

Technically Legal

Created by: Jessamyn West
URL: http://www.librarian.net/
Retrieved from: http://www.librarian.net/technicality/
Language: English
Contributed by: Melissa Messina

From Jessamyn West, ornery doyenne of the library blog cognescenti, come five hilarious and "technically legal" signs for your library. Reproductions ok, with a credit. Anyone got Scotch tape?

Spooky Librarians

Created by: Bunny and Jeanne
Language: English
URL: http://www.spookylibrarians.com
Contributed by: Melissa Messina

Meet Bunny (library director for the oldest mortuary college in the nation) and Jeanne (aka "the steampunk librarian"), two "slightly demented Capricorn librarians" with a lot to say. On their site, you'll find individual and combined rants and forums for just about anything library related.

The Lord of the Libraries

Created by: Chris Martin
URL: http://www.youtube.com
Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdTAv4dCZMg&feature=youtu.be
Language: English
Contributed by: Kristin Zachrel

Lord of the Libraries, a spoof on Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, is Chris Martin's second film created for KU Libraries. Elves, dwarves, and men battle a brood of librarian castouts while the Hobbits make a mad dash across campus to return The Book of Power, a text 30 years overdue. Not only is the video visually stunning, it is hilarious to watch.

Who You Gonna Call?

Edited by Matt Adams
Song by Tyler Walker
Publisher: Improv Everywhere
Publication Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
URL: http://improveverywhere.com/2010/05/18/who-you-gonna-call/
Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKB7zfopiUA
Contributed by: Monica Claassen-Wilson

Imagine sitting in the New York Public Library, minding your own business, when you look up from your book or laptop to see shrouded figures wandering into the reading room.  One sits down to read a book, another opens a laptop, and a third floats over to examine the dictionary.  Suddenly, in walks a group you've hoped to see in person ever since they defeated the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man...

Video: Cataloging the Weird Stuff

Cataloging the Weird Stuff

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Created by: Nanette Donohue
URL: http://www.slideshare.net/nanettedonohue/cataloging-the-weird-stuff
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Language: English
Contributed by: Melissa Messina

Catalogers! What is the weirdest thing you have ever cataloged? Nanette Donohue's presentation lists the answers, from cake pans to fishing rods. But just when you thought it was all fun and games, Donohue shifts to tutorial mode, describing how to catalog more abstract content such as video games, playaways, streaming video, and realia. She also provides several resources to improve your cataloging experience. Laugh and learn something too.