I’m not sure how I feel about lists of blogs. I think it is tough to rank blogs, just because there isn’t a very reliable way of really calculating readership for a blog. That being said, I thought the Biblioblogosphere article in Cites & Insights was interesting, especially because Walt provided his data and details [...]

All Ages has a post about the latest project coming from Scholastic’s Graphix line, Kazu Kibuishi’s Amulet. I think librarians looking for quality comics for kids should be paying attention to the Graphix line, Scholastic really seems to be putting together a great bunch of graphic novels.
I think everyone’s doing the 5 Desert Island comics [...]

This project, RSS Creator was posted on Web4Lib today. It looks like it generates rss feeds for journals that a library subscribes to and provides links to journals that resolve through SFX.
There’s a flash demo of the tool. I’m wondering now if something like this could be developed for libraries that don’t use Ex Libris [...]

Well, things are going well with the unnamed mysterious blog that we’re starting up where I work. Today we had a hands-on session where we got the blog started, and the people who are going to blog set up blogger accounts and created a few posts. I’m glad we picked blogger for this project since [...]

Tokyo Boys and Girls #1 (amazon)
Wow, reading this made me appreciate Hot Gimmick even more. This is a really early work by Miki Aihara. It doesn’t seem to me like she had fully developed her style; if I had seen this book without being aware of her other work I would probably have characterized the [...]

Well the Weinstein’s bought Tony Jaa’s new movie Tom Yum Goong. I hope they don’t edit it too much. There’s a new trailer up on the movie site where you can see Tony Jaa hanging out with elephants and jumping up and kicking a streetlight.

We’ve been blogging internally for a while now, but we have a couple projects that would call for a public blog. One is a discipline-based blog to help with outreach for people with research projects (faculty, graduates, and undergraduates). A smaller library on my campus has a perfect project for a blog, they need to [...]

Usually in the summer I have almost no classes. I tend to try to update online library instuction stuff and plan ahead for next year. The type of classes that I tend to work with over the summer tend to be outside students enrolled in special summer classes. Earlier I taught three classes for students [...]

I think this is “manga at your library” week. The August issue of Animefringe has an introduction to reading manga at your local library. I thought the article did a good job summarizing where you’d find manga at the library, and it highlighted some aspects that casual library users might not be aware of such [...]

Sushique has started a bathroom reading pool on flickr.
Honour Among Punks, a graphic novel about Sherlock Holmes and punk girls in an alternate future London. Now I want to read this!
Fanboy Rampage points out what happens when Nathan “Captain Mal” Fillion meets a bad comic book store guy.