A Post for the Dog Days of Summer

It’s July. If you’re not on vacation you’re probably covering for someone who is. Summer reading is winding down, and we’ve got a few weeks before school starts. If you are anything like me, you are FRIED. I’ve been trying to come up with an extremely useful bit of reference wisdom, but I’ve got nothing. Sometimes the best way of recharging is to laugh, so I present to you some extremely useful resources for librarian giggles. You’ve probably seen most of these before, but an occasional reminder can’t hurt.

ACME Upstairs Library School
http://geniuslisa.wixsite.com/auls
https://www.facebook.com/acmeuls/
School Motto: Veni Vidi Verso

You have probably seen some of AULS’s professional library literature pulp book covers, but have you attended the poster session, toured the campus, or explored their plethora of highly useful documents? Note that some content strays into NSFW territory.

Awful Library Books
http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

Maintained by Mary Kelly and Holly Hibner, this site promotes responsible collection maintenance by exhibiting treasures found while weeding. Anyone is welcome to submit photos of amusing or questionable materials that have been found in library collections.

Fake Library Statistics
https://twitter.com/FakeLibStats
https://www.facebook.com/FakeLibStats/

This one is pretty self-explanatory.

I Work at a Public Library
http://iworkatapubliclibrary.com/

Anecdotes submitted by people who, unsurprisingly, work at public libraries.

Invercargill City Libraries
https://www.facebook.com/invlibrary/

Sometimes a mild-mannered library Facebook page, sometimes a producer of “so good it went global” memes and videos.

Librarian Problems
http://librarianproblems.com/

Snarky Tumblr with GIFS.

Library Comic
http://librarycomic.com/

A newer, occasional comic from the creators of Unshelved.

Lousy Librarian
https://twitter.com/lousylibrarian

A snark-filled librarian Twitter feed.