Yesterday I went to see the Lord of the Rings exhibit at the Museum of Science. It was a total zoo, which I should have expected. I don’t usually like moving around in a big crush of people, and it becomes more aggravating when you have to dodge people who dress up in giant [...]

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Conversation with Jeanne
Encounter
So Little
And the City Stood in its Brightness

I decided awhile ago that having an ipod would make me a better librarian. Now I have an ipod, a cute silver mini ipod, but I can’t really use it yet because my ancient laptop doesn’t have usb2. So I’m going to buy one of those adapter cards this evening, after which I will [...]

I’ve put up a BIG list attempting to compile the comic books recommended for libraries from the “Lieber’s Eleven” meme. I think I might have missed a few lists that were posted on message boards or in blog comments, but I’ll be trying to improve the formatting of the list and adding in what I’ve [...]

Refgrunt from a very slow night:
The bound periodicals are over there
I’ll show you where the computer science books are, they might have been moved
You can only check out a book for a month, but you can renew it a bunch!
How to print
I explain the differences between a collection of electronic journals vs an article database
How [...]

Johanna at Cognitive Dissonance points to this article “When Piracy Becomes Promotion” about early years of anime fandom, when the fansubbing community was the major source of anime, as opposed to today when you can buy Tokyo Godfathers at Target. I have to admit, most of my initial interest in anime can be traced [...]

My mom posted a comment asking me what books about comic books I’d consider essential. I’m going to make a couple lists, one list that I’d consider essential for an academic library, and one list that I’d consider essential for someone with a large personal collection of books.
So, a list of essentials in academia (I [...]

This is now one of my favorite memes, as it combines two things I love: comic books and libraries (via Tegan) :
Lieber’s Eleven
Tegan’s list
Milo George’s list
This is what I’d buy if I was doing collection development at an academic library with no graphic novels, in no particular order:
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics
Art Spiegelman, Maus
Osamu Tezuka, Astro [...]

John Jakala posted about some insanely discounted manga. I haven’t ordered anything before from the online store that he mentioned, but the bargains for were too good to pass up. I think this was my first time pre-ordering a ton of manga based solely on if I thought the covers were pretty.
So I decided to [...]

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From Hell — the web page
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Richard Hell
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