One topic related to teaching librarianship that people write articles about from time to time is Bibliographic Instruction Burnout, an overview can be found in this article Burnout and the Academic Teaching Librarian.
Part of me finds the idea of studying burnout among librarians a little laughable, because compared to other things someone could be doing, [...]

Comics Bloggers Love Yalsa Lists

Hellboy Cartoon! {via}
Details on the Director’s cut of Dark City

Well, it is that time of year again! Time to renew my ALA membership. It lapsed in October, but I haven’t renewed it yet because earlier this month I decided I wanted to buy a bus pass and food instead of writing out a check to ALA for $160.00 (Basic membership fees + ACRL + [...]

RSS4Lib points out that the Meadville Public Library home page is powered by wordpress.

I don’t always write the usual “flipping through previews” post that most comic bloggers tend to do, but I preordered a bunch of titles that are coming out in January (because preordering and getting a discount is the way I afford to buy so many comics) and I wanted to highlight a few of them:
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I tend to add up my stats when I don’t think I’m going to get many more library instruction requests. Things are going to start to wind down a little bit after this week. Today was my last time having to teach three classes in one day, from now on I’m only scheduled for one [...]

Trusty Plinko Stick reveals his Pez collection. This makes me feel better about my yarn closet. Wait, I don’t really have a yarn closet. Forget I said that!
Johanna points out Fool’s Gold, one of the better looking upcoming OEL manga from Toykopop. You can read some of the previews here. Tokyopop is putting out a [...]

Many good manga & anime links from earlier this week:
New issue of animefringe is up, I enjoyed the reviews of Samurai Seven (mixes The Seven Samurai with cyborgs) and Trinity Blood (a show about a vampire vampire hunter who happens to be a priest). I love shows with samurai and vampire vampire hunters, those are [...]

Check out this newish addition to the biblioblogosphere, Marion No More, and read some of Ludewig’s thoughts on Google Print and OCR. Post more often, please

Dave was Nick Fury for Halloween, and he posted slides from a PowerPoint presentation he gave to convince people to join his spy organization.
Near Mint Heroes points out a new Character Design blog.
A new Blog about 1950s animation called Cartoon Modern is going to be a companion to a book on the topic.