Well, fun online fan-based reference sources:
DC Comics Timeline
Marvel Chronology Project
both via Fanboy Rampage.

After work today instead of powerwalking to my mass transit stop I got sidetracked overhearing a conversation behind me:
“I couldn’t find anything scholarly on my topic!”
“Seriously?”
Yeah, but my prof told me not to worry about it!”
So my innerlibrarian was just screaming “NO, NO, NO, NO!” upon hearing this so I turned around and conducted an [...]

I think I’m going to skip going to the library for a month or two. All of the library reading I’ve done recently has left me with an even bigger backlog of books to be read than usual. Next I want to read the new Don Quixote translation, Rose Macauley’s Towers of Trebizond, and I’ve [...]

The Good:
A student comes up to the reference desk after only using google for her project, saying that her prof. told her to “ask a librarian.” I show her a couple article databases she can use for sources for her topic and give her a crash course in searching the library catalog and explain to [...]

Author and ‘personality’ Kinky Friedman is running for governer of Texas. That’s great. I’m almost wishing I could live in Texas just so I could vote for the man who wrote the immortal song “They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore.”
I remember driving across the country with an audiobook of “Blast from the Past”, which [...]

I always feel a little bad when I have to tell someone “No” at the reference desk, even when “No” is a perfectly correct answer to their question. Like the student who was having problems accessing the wireless network in the library. After I asked him if his computer had ever been configured to access [...]

The new issue of Sequential Tart is out, and as usual it is full of good stuff. One article I found interesting was “How Do I Dismiss Thee?
Ways That Dismissal of Manga Dismisses Female Readers from Comic Book Discours” by Barb Lien-Cooper. The article was written in response to Stephen “graphic novels in libraries” Weiner’s [...]

I still think the best anime out there for librarians is Read or Die, as any tv show that starts with a scene of a villian with super electric powers on his way to destroy the library of congress has to be a pinnacle of excellence that few series will ever be able to reach. [...]

Over at the sneeze, interviews with Better Off Dead’s Savage Steve Holland and Dan Schneider.
Two dollars! I want my two dollars!