Info Pimp

"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books." Guy Browning (The Guardian column, www.guardian.co.uk 18 October 2003)

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Would you like meth with that?

Who ever knew that Inter library loans could be so much fun?
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5034977.html

On a similar note - our "Drug info @ your library" promo (pens,bookmarks, literature, etc) was wonderfully referred to as "drugs at your library" by a dear old lady the other day.
I felt like drawing myself up to my full height (not very impressive I know) and booming "We only push books here ma'am!"

In other news from the library front:
In a strange little skylight in a study room at work there's a large space between the outside pane of glass and the 'ceiling' pane of glass. There is also a small gap where the ceiling pane doesn't fit the space fully.
You can put your arm through this gap.
Which is what some school students have done, and they've built a tower inside this space.
Starting with an upside down ginger beer bottle, then:
a pineapple juicebottle, diet coke can, coffee cup, can of 'V', and topped off with an upside down coke bottle and then it's lid.
It's surrounded by a sea of scrunched up paper.
It could be modern art if it was called that by it's creaters.
Man they must be freaked out by their exams.

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