Category Archives: video

Cinco Library’s Encyclopedia of Numbers

“for thousands of years mathematicians and families have searched for a single volume that could contain all the numbers imaginable.” rainn wilson talks about the cinco library’s encyclopedia of numbers. direct link to the video

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bubble bath, anyone?

imagine this fountain in the atrium of the von der ahe library filled with bubbles and a guy wearing swim trunks, and you have our favorite library prank of 2009. (link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WxkkU1Zkrk)

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the slow loris

need a pick-me-up?  check out this video of a slow loris getting his tummy tickled. youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLdQ3UhLoD4

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we don’t have cookies, just books

i’m thinking about switching our reference desk sign that says “ask me” with a sign that says, “we don’t have cookies, just books!” and see if anybody notices.

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Journal of Visualized Experiments

just yesterday i commented to a colleague that for a discipline as visual as medicine, the libraries that serve it still tend to be text-centric, and then, bam! i hear about a journal that embodies what i imagine is the … Continue reading

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david lynch, weather man?

every morning between 9 and 10 david lynch phones in to the indie radio station here in l.a., 103.1, and gives a weather report.  it usually goes something like this: “today is april 12.  it’s a thursday.  where i am … Continue reading

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