Library Journal has an article, “Meet the Gamers” up, written by a couple of the presenters at an OCLC program that I attended at ALA midwinter.
I’m liking the web site of the University of Rochester library, because it seems so task-based. There’s a big link for articles (not “Indexes” or databases or periodical literature” at [...]

Daniel “Lemony Snicket” Handler on H.P. Lovecraft in NY Times Book Review{via}

Robot Sherlock Holmes
Manga News Round-up

I was at the reference desk all day long today. So I present to you dear readers, a very special very long refgrunt:

I’d like to touch the bun and rate its tightness [library poem]
Smart Bitches, Trashy Books - Romance novel reviews {via}
Many live journal people write about the manga

Today I taught my last classes (barring any weird last minute scheduling) of the semester! That makes me happy. More faux poetry:
7 ways of looking at Data Loss
I
My Documents folder
empty and barren
a wasteland of lost data
II
An instruction librarian
without her archived handouts
sighs about data loss
III
I open up Excel
my statistics are lost data
IV
A librarian and her tutorials
are [...]

OHMIGOD! What is up with Joel freaking Grey on Alias? How awesome is that?!!!

Since this is national library week and national poetry month, I’m going to write some crappy poems about an uncool thing that happened to me at work. Poem the first:
This is just to say, tech support
I dearly miss
the My Documents
folder someone
failed to copy
to my new computer.
Why reformat the
old hard drive
so quickly?
Now, I imagine
rabid rodents
cavorting [...]

Meeting Dave Sim’s cousin {via}
Comics for this week, Flight 2 comes out and I am ashamed to admit that my copy of Flight 1 vanished when I was on an apartment cleaning binge and I haven’t read it yet
Texts in Context {via}

Notes from Google Scholar blog on ACRL. I can see why the [...]

So I wandered around today wearing a pedometer just to get a sense of how many steps I need to get to the magic 10,000 steps. If I walk home from work, I hit 7,500 steps which isn’t horrible. I have an exercise bike and I usually ride it for 45 minutes. If I go [...]

Review of Power Pack #1 and Death Jr at Comics Should be Good
R.I.P. Thought Balloons
Tons of screencaps of Clamp’s Tsubasa