Here's someting light and entertaining to lift your possibly somber mood as you prep for exams (students) or think about all the mountains of exams you'll be grading (professors):

• Two college student designers, Luke Greeway and Laura D'Asaro, 27 volunteers, seven hours of work, five attempts, and 2,131 books mixed together at the Seattle Public Library to create the longest doomino book chain the in the world.
• Academic libraries benefit eveyone on campus, yet they receive fewer than two cents of every dollar spent on higher education (from Quotable Facts About America's Libraries published by the American Library Association).
• The world´s largest fine for an overdue library book is $345.14 (£203.29), the amount owed at two cents a day for the poetry book Days and Deeds, checked out of Kewanee Public Library (IL) in 1955. Emily Canellos-Simms found it in her mother's house 47 years after the due date and presented the library with a check for overdue fines.
• Possibly the world's largest book, This is Muhammad, went on display in Abu Dhabi’s Al Wahda Mall on May 30, 2017, with the book being officially accepted into the Guinness World Records in a signing ceremony, a first for an Arabic book.
• Teeny Ted from Turnip Town is the smallest book in the world, created by Nano Imaging Laboratory of Simon Fraser University. It is 0.07mm x 0.10mm in size.