On Friday at work, one of the students on an earlier library tour came up to me at the reference desk as I was finishing with someone else, and commented “You’re so quiet now!” and I was like “Yes, I don’t tend to project my voice when I’m not trying to speak to 30 people […]

Goes Dark Horse!, so I guess volume 2 will be coming out after all! Coolness.

Warren Ellis is putting up photos submitted by his readers today

This article is an interview with the Vice President/CIO/University Librarian at Rice University.
I do agree in some ways that librarianship is conservative. On a personal level one thing that drives me crazy as a younger newer librarian is the conservativism that occurs sometimes when one has enthusiastically presented a new idea, and then is subjected […]

One advantage of going to a large state school with an agricultural/vet med focus is the likelyhood that there are going to be some freaky cows somewhere on campus. I have dim memories of attending some sort of fair when I was a small child and seeing the cow with a hole in its stomach. […]

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Wow, I have to link to neilalien, as this lovely web site features a palindrome for a url. And it contains all the Dr. Strange and comics bloggery that a fan girl could hope for. I especially like the Dr Strange and his foes css style switcher, where you can choose between skins that feature […]

This article from the Japan Times
provides an overview of the Manga/Graphic novels market, including
some information about the European market that doesn�t seem to get much press on many of the US comics sites when they talk about the recent explosion of manga. I had no idea that there were German shoujo manga digests.
There’s a mention […]

There has been much written recently about the nature of library weblogs and the overlap that happens when everyone links to the same item. Steven would like to have a way of filtering out redundant posts. Catalogblog calls for more topic-centric library blogs…. I wonder if library blogs are going through the same growing pains […]

I had no idea about the VanExel for Jamison deal that’s going to happen on Monday, I guess. Mark Cuban is so sneaky. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the Mavs after the trade.
There’s an article in the Chronicle, Sweet, Savage Academe: True Confessions of a Pulp Professor, that examines what its like […]