Library Books Returned 50 Years Late

“ A high school librarian in Phoenix says a former student at the school returned two overdue books checked out 51 years ago along with…”  Click here or on the image for the full story with video.

Comic strip about Libraries

I thought everyone had already heard of the comic strip “Unshelved” by Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, but I discovered I was mistaken.  Take a peek at it on their home page:

http://www.unshelved.com/

You can subscribe and receive it daily in your e-mail, or even purchase a compilation book of older strips.  It’s a comic strip about libraries and librarians and it can be really funny and definitely on-point.  Take a peek.

Slow News Day

Goose flying upside down (or Photoshop?)

“Brian MacFarlane was amazed when he looked at the photo he had captured of the bird in flight.  The incredible display of mid-flight acrobatics is also a remarkable feat of wildlife photography.”   Story

Biggest Food Product Duds

“Thousands of new food products are introduced to American grocery shoppers every year, which makes us wonder: Which items are so wild that they’ve been removed from shelves permanently? We examined some of the biggest food flops over the last 40+ years. ”   Full List

Ed. – Which of your favs are gone or MIA? The McDLT, Tab, Zima?

144 yrs, not longest overdue book?

“According to a press release from the university, the book was removed from the library by a Union soldier named C.S. Gates on June 11, 1864, when the institution, then known as Washington College, was looted by the Union Army…missing for more than 100 years, but a volume checked out of the Harvard College library and returned in 1997 was more than 233 years overdue when it was finally returned.”   Full Story

Why isn’t this book in all libraries?

Happy April Fools Day!

“April Fools’ Day or All Fools’ Day, although not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on April 1. The day is marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, enemies, and neighbours, or sending them on fool’s errand, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible.      Full Entry

What we are all thinking….

http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20090307