Setting: Tangognat is standing near Librarian Y’s cubicle discussing a project. Tangognat looks up to discover a student approaching the cubicle.

Tangognat: Are you here to see Y?
Student: I need some help with finding some journals…Hey! Remember me?
Tangognat: Ummm….(tries to place student, who looks vaguely familiar)
Student: You don’t remember me! You helped me at the reference [...]

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The Beat points out an article in USA today that mentions librarians and comics.

Was what someone told me when I was helping them at the reference desk tonight. It is tough sometimes trying to find a balance between telling someone what they really need and telling them what they’ll be able to absorb. I usually tell people what they need to do for their research, even if not [...]

Foul Play: The Art and Artists of the Notorious 1950s E.C. Comics by Grant Geissman. Published by Harper Collins.
Review copy provided by the publisher.
I’ve always been fascinated by E.C. Comics and the creation of the comics code. I think it was the first case of censorship that really resonated with me when I learned about [...]

Books
Firethorn by Sarah Micklem- (amazon) Well written first novel of a trilogy, but I wish the heroine hadn’t spent such a large portion of the book as a camp follower.
Playing With Boys by Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez - (amazon) If you liked the Dirty Girls Social Club and want to read the same book again with a [...]