We're delighted to have contributed a library shenanigan involving an illusion of nudity to the Library Shenanigans blog.

Learning perhaps ought to quit sleeping and snoring so as to grasp how to properly pluralize "library."  From National-Louis' 1969 yearbook.

It used to be, "Keep five books apart" to prevent the spread of cooties, but now nobody reads.  From Berea's 1968 yearbook.

"Not to leave library."  From Park College's 1964 yearbook.

From Black On White: The Story of Books by M. Ilin, 1932.

A library held together by strings, from Lehigh's 1973 yearbook.

The point at which an influx of light meets a book is the true spirit of a library, according to Louis I. Kahn.

"Functionally a library … spiritually a sanctuary." —Louis I. Kahn

"Library is madhouse" -- a headline from Florida Flambeau, 1975.

Encountering evil at the library.  (Here's the book with the wicked centerfold she's gasping at.)  From Anderson's 1985 yearbook.

"Oh! For a book from the library!"  From Associated Advertising, 1917.

From Washington College's 1969 yearbook.

We're delighted to be mentioned over at Library Shenanigans:

A frightening number of yearbooks describe college as if alien beings are desperately learning to pass as human.  It's an oddly common theme, and it's disconcerting.  This caption reads, "I am amorphous.  I am nerve ends, ganglia, squeezed, compressed.  I must stiffen, yet stay flexible.  I want to be steel, I am afraid of becoming stone."  Yeah, sure.  Whatever you say, Marvin the Martian.  Of course, these aliens grew up and now rule the world -- Representative Jim Himes actually said this on national television: "the lizard brain that I have says I hope bad things happen" (we're not making this up; Google it!)

From Chowan's 1965 yearbook.

From Mansfield's 1933 yearbook.

This spindly armed ghost haunts Elmhurst's 1959 yearbook.

Here's a library ghost from the University of Maryland, College Park yearbook of 1976.  Whether for payback or peace of mind, see How to Hoodoo Hack a Yearbook.

It sounds like a note on the blueprints for Disneyland's Haunted Mansion: "Library needs insufficient lighting."  From Daily Tar Heel, 1939.