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Compiled by Cheryl Lubow, Librarian, Research Services
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From our shelves: The Will Manley books are fun to read, or you can flip through and pick out the cartoons.

Z678.6 .M36 1993 For library directors only : talking about trustees ; For library trustees only : living with your director/Will Manley ;  illustrations by Richard Lee. McFarland, 1993

NC1429.E68 A4 1998 Interlibrary loan sharks and seedy roms : cartoons from libraryland/Benita L. Epstein. McFarland, 1998

Z682.5 .V64 1988 A librarian is to read/Betty Vogel. Blue Flower Press, 1988

Z665.2.U6 M36 1993The Manley art of librarianship/Will Manley ; illustrations by Richard Lee. McFarland & Co., 1993

Z711 .A394 2006 Reference librarianship : notes from the trenches/Charles R. Anderson & Peter Sprenkle. Haworth Information Press, 2006

Z693.5.U6 M35 1995 The truth about catalogers/Will Manley ; illustrations by Richard Lee. McFarland & Co., 1995

Z665.2.U6 M37 1994 Uncensored thoughts : pot shots from a public librarian/Will Manley ; illustrations by Richard Lee. McFarland, 1994

Z720.M34 A3 1991 Unintellectual freedoms : opinions of a public librarian/Will Manley. McFarland & Co., 1991

Z720.M34 A3 1992 Unprofessional behavior : confessions of a public librarian/Will Manley ; illustrations by Gary Handman. McFarland, 1992

Z678 .M2795 1992 Unsolicited advice : observations of a public librarian/Will Manley ; illustrations by Gary Handman. McFarland & Company, 1992

Z682.5 .L44 1992 "You can tell your kid will grow up to be a librarian when--" : cartoons about the profession/Richard Lee. McFarland & Company, 1992


More library humor from the OhioLINK libraries

Casanova was a librarian : a light-hearted look at the profession/Kathleen Low. McFarland & Co., 2007

A funny thing happened on the way to the school library : a treasury of anecdotes, quotes, and other happenings/Larry A. Parsons ; illustrated by Janet Askew and Kathleen Spradlin. Libraries Unlimited, 1990

Funny you should ask: return of the grin, real-life questions from the reference desk volume 2. Thomson Gale, 2006

The romance of libraries/Madeleine Lefebvre. Scarecrow Press, 2006

 

 


A sample of websites and blogs

A Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette - “The number one, most-trusted source for authoritative tongue-in-cheek librarian etiquette tips on the Internet”

Overdue Laughs - Not updated very often but it does have some funny content

The Lipstick Librarian - Check out the bibliography

Love the Liberry - “We couldn’t possibly make these things up”

Pimp My Bookcart - 2010 was the final year for this bookcart-decorating contest

Unshelved - Nine years of library cartoons

Warrior Librarian Weekly - Biblia’s 200+ pages of library humor

Library Humor Pathfinder - collection of links to internet sources for humor about libraries, librarians, and related topics.

Best of Publib Library Humor - phone calls, comments, emails from patrons

 

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