So it sounds like ALA might be launching a recruitment site. I really wonder why they are doing this while so many recent grads are having a hard time finding jobs. It doesn’t seem as if money is going to drop out of the sky to improve the funding situation for most libraries. With the [...]

I didn’t really get much today. I think as I become older and more mature, I’m less thrilled about collecting free pens. I grabbed a few advance copies of some young adult/kids books (Princess Academy by Sharon Hale, Stravaganza: City of Flowers by Mary Hoffman, The Cry of the Icemark by Stuart Hill). Really, in [...]

Yesterday was a very full day for me. I was a bit of a slacker today, but I’ll write about that later.
Yesterday I was SO proud of myself for actually managing to wake myself up and get down to the conference center before 9:00. My pride was built on a shaky foundation though, because in [...]

Really one of the most important things about attending a conference is getting the free stuff. So I will attempt to highlight some of the things you can take home with you if the idea of pens, post it notes, and advance reading copies of books make your heart go pitter-pat.
The Tote Bags
ALA totebags are [...]

Day One was really a half day for me, because I went to work in the morning and then attended an OCLC program:
Friday Symposium: Gaming and the Significance for Information Literacy Learning
How can you improve library service in the tech-centric, personalized, branded world of instant information? The dialogue begins with a definition of gaming and [...]

Strange weather today. The fog outside kept making me want to take a nap. Except I usually want to take a nap. I think I’m going to take one soon.
I’m bitter that DC is canceling Human Target. This was one of the few DC comics that I bought every month.

Westchester County has hired someone to [...]

Hmm, this is what I’m thinking of attending:
Friday:
1:30 PM- 4:30 PM
UNO | OCLC Symposium - Gaming and the Significance for Information Literacy Learning
I look forward to the day where instead of teaching classes, I can invite my students to play some sort of multiplayer combat game. I will frag everybody with the deadly bazooka of [...]

Cartoon Brew reviews May and the Kitten Bus, a short movie that’s only shown at the Studio Ghibli museum. It sounds adorable.

Here’s an interview with the author who wrote about Miyazaki in a recent issue of The New Yorker. {via}
Those old Jimmy Olsen comics look like they were totally insane.
Mike Sterling unearths some Will [...]

Polite Dissent provides a medical review of Sgt. Frog
3 Underground Manga artists profiled over at Completely Futile (scroll down, permalink isn’t working)

Blue Spring sounds good
The second volume of Queen’s Knight abandons the flashbacks and high school drama that were juggled in the first volume , as Yuna goes to Germany to visit her mother and [...]

Does anyone know of any outstanding semi-dynamic web pages that list library databases? I’m collecting some links here. Most of the pages that I’ve seen look like they were developed 2-4 years ago, and feature a selection menu of different academic disciplines and an option to view databases alphabetically. Some allow you to search by [...]