Funny spoof of librarian stereotypes. "I'm not in it for the glamor; I like to help people," he says, then goes on to slap a cell phone out of one patron's hand, grabs a donut from someone working in a cubicle, and generally repressing everyone using the library. From the Drake University Law School library.

Sun Microsystems promo piece on Stanford's Digital library initiatives. Includes Grokker visual interface, which runs on Java. Features interview with Michael Keller.

Video spoof of the Mac vs PC ads, with one person trying to find an image in Google Images and another using the libraries image databases.

Lib Clips at the University of Pennsylvania libraries has students literally singing the praises of library services and the information commons at the U Penn library.

Funny video promoting library as a place to get information, even late at night, done as a spoof of fast food ads.

Video that suggests public libraries need to get hip if they are to survive. Funny but vicious.

Slide show and description of a lovely renovation of Lehigh University's Library.

Stephen Abrams, SirsiDynamix Director of Innovation, lists a few things, in no particular order, that he thinks will happen in 2008 that might have an impact on our library world. From his Dec. 30, 2007 blog. Examples: 12. The Google Docs suite will make real inroads into the enterprise space. It will be very hot in high school and college/academic spaces too. Like all popular useful tools many institutional IT managers will attempt to block them. 14. Gaming, RSS and Blogs are totally normal in 2008. Not to be using them is to be well behind the curve of your average user. Few users will be able to point to them since they're just normal. It would be like asking users to point to HTML, CSS or SMTP. They're like the freon in your fridge.

Al Yankelovich spoofs the tyrannical librarian