Ah, national poetry month!
Charles Simic reading “Riddle”
Sharon Olds reading “The Ferryer”
The favorite poem project, some of my favorites are Frank O’Hara’s “Lana Turner Has Collapsed” and William Carlos Williams’ “This is just to say” and poems from Anne Sexton’s Transformations

I felt bad when I had a woman come in to the library and ask me where the mystery section was. We don’t really have a leisure reading section, although some academic libraries do. I could have easily helped her find some literary criticism on the development of the detective novel or the influence of [...]

So I went to bloggercon today. I went to the Librarianesque panel and the one on blogging in Academia. I’d never been to a conference before where the main action came from the audience as opposed to a speaker giving a presentation.
Some things the librarianesque session talked about that I’d liked to have seen [...]

Via Burningbird, one of the weird side effects of a9 is seeing web site information displayed in the same space as products you’d be shopping for at amazon. If you click on the “site info” button you see a page like this:
for librarystuff, lisnews, me.
This all looks a little funky to me. I wonder how [...]

The University of London Library has a web page with a few images from their Terry Pratchett Archive. Nice!

I had my first manga related question at the reference desk today. It was very funny, a student walked up, rummaged in his backpack for a manga volume and pointed to the “about the author” section in the back, saying “I need more information on this guy!”
However, it is a little tough to find articles [...]

There’s an excerpt of an article from The Comics Journal “2004 - A good year to get out of the manga business?” where Toren Smith of Studio Proteus claims that the “quantity over quality” publishing practices of industry giants like Tokyopop will lead to a collapse of the booming manga market.

Via LinkmachineGo and similar to the Pepys blog, Diary of a Nobody is being published in blog format.

Via Nat.
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
“I realized what was happening, and in an instant this great truth flashed into my mind: that I was, true, a Latin and not a Greek, [...]

I know that they are kicking in when I do spaced out stuff like leave the tap running in a sink for around an hour and a half. Those little drainage holes at the top of the sink actually DO work!
Since Steven “librarystuff” Cohen is requesting some googlebombing:
The Library of Congress is a great source [...]