librarian.net » stunts http://www.librarian.net putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:37:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Congrats Librarians, for your New World Record! http://www.librarian.net/stax/1359/congrats-librarians-for-your-new-world-record/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/1359/congrats-librarians-for-your-new-world-record/#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2005 16:17:06 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1359 Have you ever seen a happier group of librarians? Congratulations Henderson County Public Libraries on your new world record.

]]> http://www.librarian.net/stax/1359/congrats-librarians-for-your-new-world-record/feed/ 0 librarians trying to break Guinness Book’s read aloud record http://www.librarian.net/stax/1349/librarians-trying-to-break-guinness-books-read-aloud-record/ http://www.librarian.net/stax/1349/librarians-trying-to-break-guinness-books-read-aloud-record/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2005 22:36:56 +0000 jessamyn http://www.librarian.net/stax/1349 Librarians from Henderson District Public Libraries [NV] are trying to break the Guiness Book record for reading aloud right now. Their goal is 100 hours, thoroughly smashing the existing record of 81 hours and 15 minutes. Read their blog, see their Flickr pictures, learn more. From an email I got from them
We are sleep-deprived, punchy, and silly, but the Henderson staff and other libraries throughout the state seem to be getting a kick out of it.

Anyhow, this is the most bizarre thing I’ve done in the name of libraries and reading yet!

Oh, why are we doing this? We have recently purchased a bookmobile. We have gotten local corporate sponsors, and the money from that will go to our nascent outreach program. We are also highlighting literacy as well.

update: “Jessamyn West is excellent about posting bizarre crackpot stunts in the library world.” may have to be my new tagline

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