MangaBlog continues to do a great job gathering together all the stories about the removal of Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from the San Bernardino County Library system. I’m surprised that so far we haven’t seen any commentary from library oriented publications about the removal process, which seems a little irregular to me. Well, [...]

The third issue of Edge of the Forest is up so check it out for some children’s literature goodness. This month, I reviewed a couple of Rod Espinosa’s graphic novels, The Courageous Princess and Neotopia.

I wanted to like Will Eisner’s last graphic novel The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but it didn’t really seem to gel into a complete work. The Plot certainly serves as an introduction to the history of the anti-semitic plagiarized propaganda The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, [...]

Manga Blog has a ton of links and commentary about the San Bernadino County library’s decision to pull a non-fiction book about manga.
Big A little a has collected a ton of links from blogs reviewing kids’ books, check out her post.

I had a good day today, and it is even better knowing that I don’t have to go to work tomorrow! I went downtown and took advantage of Borders’ buy 3 get one free manga sale (bought 2 volumes of Boys Over Flowers, MeruPuri 4, and Sayuki Reload 1). I then found 3 summer sweaters [...]

I taught my last 2 classes today. I’m spending a bunch of time now documenting things and finishing projects. I’ve thrown out a surprising amount of paper I was keeping in my files - just stuff for my personal use, the next person who has my job is going to inherit a few legacy files [...]

This time, a 16 year old checked out a manga anthology that was shelved in the adult section of a library, giving rise to the clever newspaper headline “Good grief, Charlie Brown! Family stunned by porn comics at library.”
You can read some posts about it at Manga Blog and Beaucoupkevin.

I don’t often use journals on the Blackwell Synergy platform, but I was looking for an article tonight and I saw this:

That is pretty nifty, you can opt in to get either an atom or rss feed that will let you know when someone cites the article.

I have around 3 weeks left of work for my current job. I’m teaching my last classes this week. It all seems a little surreal. With that, I give you a refgrunt:
We have drop-in hours for writing help in the library (staffed by graduate students in English) but they aren’t on duty tonight. A student [...]

There was an interesting thread on Web4Lib today about opening up one’s OPAC to the google crawler. Is it good, or could it be considered as spam? If you were searching on google and ran across a library record from a library somewhere across the country where you didn’t have access, would it be annoying? [...]