I’m toying with the idea of running some ads on this site (maybe just Google AdSense or whatever Yahoo does, I’m not sure) but if a large group of regular readers hates the idea, I probably won’t do it. So, I’m curious, would you find a few ads on this site extremely irksome? Or would [...]

Greenpeace + Swamp Thing = ?
Superman comes to Shabbos Dinner
Crochet Jellyfish

Hana Kimi (amazon)
Sometimes I like cliches. Cliches abound in shoujo manga as they do in any type of genre fiction, and sometimes they can get a bit tiring. But every now and then I’ll read a title that I’ll like despite a storyline that I’ve read before. Hana Kimi is a shoujo story like [...]

Chicken Spaghetti has a plea for the ALA web site
I do think the new Emily the Strange library posters look cool, at least.

Do you ever have a hard time remembering something and it starts to drive you batty? At times like these I am glad I’m a librarian, because if I sit down and think a little bit I will be able to use my librarian powers to figure out the answer. This afternoon I was wracking [...]

Manga Talk on the recent TechKNOW article about cataloging manga
I liked this recent Zeldman article on web 3.0

Electric Girl library posters

Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things by Ted Naifeh (amazon)
I’ve been meaning to try out Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things for quite some time, so when Oni Press reissued it, I snapped it up.
Courtney Crumrin moves with her social-climbing parents to the town of Hillsborough. They are going to live with her uncle, [...]

It is Monday and the 20th Carnival of the Infosciences finds people contemplating the future shape of libraries and librarianship.
We start with the idea of libraries as place, can a digital library help collaboration?
“Places of Quiet Collaboration” a commentary about a newspaper article by Alex Wright by Tinfoil + Raccoon, examines this question.
Woah, dude, [...]

Is it National Delurking Week? Feel free to delurk and comment. Or just comment even if you haven’t been lurking! I’m starting to get close to 2000 comments on this blog, and I thought that I’d give something away to the 2000th commenter. I’m not sure what the prize will be. It might be graphic [...]

Look at the lovely new library catalog at NCSU. It is so much easier to search, with suggestions for narrowing or expanding your search after you enter in some keywords. There’s even a functional way to browse by LC Subject Heading. Here’s the news release, and the new features page. I found out about the [...]