Back in the day, people would think horn-rimmed glasses, a tight bun and constantly being shushed were classics you'd find in a library.
Today at the Prince George Public Library we find Amy Dawley, the teen librarian who dresses up like a vampire from Twilight, Ruth Buehler, the Harley-riding program co-ordinator, Allan Wilson, the juggling Chief Librarian.
Also breaking the stereotypes is the opportunity to be loud, have fun and let your imagination soar.
This summer, children and teens can take the Make Waves at Your Library summer reading challenge, while teens can answer the call to shoot a 30-second commercial for the library or do a short film less than 10 minutes long.
That doesn't sound like the library most of us grew up with but that's how it is now.
The library staff is thinking outside the box and holding Storytime in the Park where hundreds of people attend the half-hour telling of tall tales.
Every Thursday there's a new location, and from 10:30 to 11 a.m. preschoolers, toddlers and other small people gather with mom and dad, cousins, uncles and grandmas to listen.
And if being at the library is your thing but you still want to be outside, check out the Story Garden. Each planted pod reflects the theme of a different tale.
Stories include The Princess and the Pea, Jack and the Beanstalk, Growing Vegetable Soup, The Enormous Potato, Cinderella (no, it's not a glass slipper that's planted. Can you guess? It's pumpkins!) and more.
The Make Waves reading program begins July 4, and challenges readers to not buy a thing and collectively read 2,500 books while raising funds - for every book read, $1 is donated to the Uganda Development Foundation, a local organization that builds wells in Uganda.
"This generation of children is really tuned into this sort of thing," said Buehler, the Harley-riding program co-ordinator.
Teens will help with the children's program, too, said Tiare Jung, summer assistant.
"The teens will be up-cycling old items," she said.
Instead of recycling old books in the traditional way, teens turn them into book bags with handles to repurpose old hard-cover books.
"It's very important to have things we make be useful -- not things to keep for a while and then throw out," said Jung.
The commercial and short film challenge came from the library's Youth Advisory Board and the awards will be called the YABbies, kind of like the Internet awards called the Webbies, for websites, interactive advertising and online film and video.
Only the YABbies are better because they come with cool prizes. Up for grabs is cash, a video camera and the opportunity to have the winning commercial aired on a local television station.
And that's just a bit about what's going on during the summer.
Check out the website for more, www.lib.pg.bc.ca.
