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September/October 2004

Library Humor on the Web

Alice Yucht 

Bookmark these for instant stress-relief. If necessary -- and if you can manage to keep a straight face -- you could always claim that you’re ‘evaluating resources for a new learning activity.’

• Unshelved; a comic strip about daily life in a public library: http://www.overduemedia.com/
• A Librarian’s Alphabet: http://pw1.netcom.com/~dplourde/sampler/alphabet.html
• Library Science Jargon That Sounds Dirty: www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/library.html
• Benita Epstein’s Library/Education cartoons; http://www.reuben.org/benitaepstein/library.asp
• The Librarianship Test: http://web.archive.org/web/20011020190416/www.vuw.ac.nz/~rigbyfi/librarian_test.htm
• Rejected library conference workshop proposals: http://www.lisnews.com/article.php3?sid=20030214082844
• Weird Reference Questions: http://home.hawaii.rr.com/kingcharles/Library/weirdqst.htm
• ‘I am the very model of computerized librarian’: http://www.tk421.net/humor/cybrarian.html
• Johnson’s List of Library & Technology Laws: http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/rules.html
• original Library Humor by Biblia the Warrior Librarian: http://www.warriorlibrarian.com/laffs.html
• Jennifer Friedman’s humorous library essays: http://www.gflower.org/Pieces.htm
• Librarian Avengers: Why you should fall to your knees and worship a librarian: http://www.librarianavengers.org/worship.html
• Great Moments in the History of Technical Services: http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/~murrizol/ts_history/tshist.htm
• On-the-job Library Humor: http://www.san-andreas-sla.org/faultline/March200214.htm
• Library Science Jeopardy: http://www.wam.umd.edu/~aubrycp/project/jeopardy.html
• The Lipstick Librarian: http://www.lipsticklibrarian.com/

COLLECTIONS of links to HUMOR sites: (note: some of these have dead links):

• Library Humor and Miscellany: http://www.sldirectory.com/libsf/resf/humor.html
• Humor for Library Employees: http://www.librarysupportstaff.com/libhumor.html

Lighter side:

• bibliozine: http://www.bibliozine.com/lighterside/lighterside2.shtml
• IFLANET Library Humour ... if we can't laugh at ourselves, who can? http://www.ifla.org/I/humour/humour.htm
• Library Anecdotes, Facetiae, Satire, Etc.: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/libafse.html
• Book-a-minute classics: http://www.rinkworks.com/bookaminute/classics.shtml

Library-relevant cartoons: search these two sites:

• http://www.cartoonbank.com
• http://www.amureprints.com/

Alice Yucht is a retired (but not retiring) librarian, and author of "FLIP-IT!"