Library Jokes part 2

And now for some more library jokes:

Q: Why is that library book you're trying to find always in the last place you look?
A: Because once you find it, you stop looking!

Q: Where was the librarian when the lights went out?
A: In the dark!

A man enters a library, walks up to the librarian at the desk and says loudly, "I'd like a cheeseburger with fries, hold the ketchup!"

The surprised librarian replies softly, "Sir, this is a library!".

"Oh! Sorry," says the man, now talking much softer, "I'd like a cheeseburger with fries, hold the ketchup."

Some favorite images from Pumpkin Festival 2008

Count on the Library for the best in Pumpkin Golf

Happy times at the Library table

Ethan Eldred busking for the cause

Who runs a Library ad every week? The Coffee News Lady!

Sarah Piper at day's end. Nice Fest organizing, Great Pumpkin!

See more images in the slide show
at the top right!

Library jokes part 1

This is part one of a series of library jokes chosen by Miss Melanie. If you have a good library joke, please let her know!

Q: Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor?
A: Because she was in the non-friction section!

An eight year girl was trying to check out a book entitled " Advice for Young Mothers" from the local library.
Her parent asked, "Now why do you want to check out this particular book, dear?"
Little girl: "I collect moths!"

Q: Do you know how many librarians it takes to screw in a light bulb?
A: No, but I know where you can look it up!

and finally:
What's another word for thesaurus?

Why this librarian wants more shouting in her library

Following is an excerpt from an article by Vicky Myron, a library director in Iowa. She wrote the book Dewey about a cat (full name: Dewey Readmore Books) who lived at her library for 20 years and touched many lives. After saying that she hopes she's honored Dewey's life, Ms. Myron adds this:

I hope I've also captured something else: the magic of libraries. Libraries aren't warehouses for books; they are meeting houses for human beings. A good library is less an institution than a home. It has comfortable seats, desks, computers, friendly people and, yes, sometimes even a cat. Libraries are society's great leveling agent: they offer job listings, financial information, technology, entertainment, any book you want. For free. I hate it when people tiptoe through a library. "This isn't a graveyard," I want to shout. "It's alive. So live a little!"

Librarians aren't little old ladies who spend all day stamping books and shushing people. We love to have fun, for one thing. But we also have interesting jobs that entail, among other things, planning community events; adopting new technologies; battling censorship; and reaching out to underprivileged groups. We provide job banks in tough times, free childcare for working parents, and, in Spencer at least, translators for errands and doctors visits, the town's only Spanish-language outreach. Be warned: librarians are studying you, and they know what you need. That's their job.