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Heavy, Lit Awards, Facebook Research, Fugly Spiderman, Canadian Teen Angst

January 11th, 2006 at 7:06 pm » Comments (0)

Heavy Metal Librarian. I wonder if this blog will go to 11.
Chicken Spaghetti writes about an article handicapping the Caldecott and Newbery awards
Student Life on the Facebook {via}
Iron Spidey?!
Degrassi Graphic Novels
2005 Manga Year in Review



Ask Tangognat: Inkheart

January 10th, 2006 at 8:43 am » Comments (0)

Alyson wants to know, “In Inkheart what book did Farid come out of?”
I think he comes out of the book One Thousand and One Nights.



Carnival of the Infosciences

January 9th, 2006 at 11:07 pm » Comments (0)

Perhaps you’ve already visited Carnival of the Infosciences #19, over at Wanderings of a Student Librarian? I’m hosting next week’s carnival, so as you are blogging this week keep the carnival in mind! If you have any posts to submit, e-mail me at tangognat @ tangognat.com. Thanks!!!



Library 2.oh

January 9th, 2006 at 9:31 pm » Comments (3)

Hi! If you’re looking for the post mentioned in the Library 2.0 Issue of Cites & Insights, here it is - Library 360. I enjoyed reading Walt’s overview of the Library 2.0 meme, which has certainly spread all over the biblioblogosphere. I liked the timeline and blog post round-up as there were quite a few [...]



New Look

January 6th, 2006 at 9:11 pm » Comments (3)

OK, I had a feeling when I put up that kiwi theme it wouldn’t be around for more than 24 hours. Thanks to everyone who commented. I liked the modular look of the kiwi theme, and the authors were doing some interesting things with plugins to control some of the modules on the page, but [...]



Kiwi Theme

January 5th, 2006 at 11:05 pm » Comments (5)

I’m experimenting with the Kiwi Theme, what do you think? I sort of like it although it may be a bit much, and it looks more like a CMS template for a web site than a blog.



Upgrading

January 5th, 2006 at 6:52 pm » Comments (4)

I just upgaded to wordpress 2.0. It looks pretty nifty so far. I was going to hold off for a little while, but I got an invitation to test measuremap. I figured if I was going to be messing with templates to configure my blog for the statistics tracking, I might as well upgrade beforehand. [...]



linky linky

January 5th, 2006 at 6:23 pm » Comments (0)

The Little Professor writes about buying library books
When Fangirls Attack a new comics blog {via}
Battle of the (knitting) blog search
Miyazaki on TNT schedule



library videos

January 4th, 2006 at 7:23 pm » Comments (3)

I wonder about using videos on library web sites. Many libraries have video virtual tours, but I’m not sure if they ever help anyone find their way in the library. I don’t think that using videos for library instruction works all that well, although I do like the idea of using screencasts that show an [...]



manga trade

January 1st, 2006 at 1:25 pm » Comments (0)

David Welsh has started up a yahoo group for trading manga. I’ve posted a few titles I want to swap!