The Center for Children’s books has posted its Guide Book for Gift Books for 2006.

Dramacon Volume 2 (amazon)
Dramacon 2 takes place a year after the events in the first volume. Christie has started a webcomic with a new artist named Bethany. She tried to call Matt once after meeting him at the last con, but quickly hung up when a girl answered the phone. She’s nervous and worried [...]

Well, Meg Cabot had her product placement deal with Clinique for her book How to be Popular.
Now, Danielle Steel has perfume? {via} Does anyone really want to smell like Danielle Steel?
What’s next?

If you visit this page at DC comics, you can download the first issues of many Vertigo graphic novels. Look for the #1 icon for the titles with the first issues available.

Journalista points out this article from the International Herald Tribune about the likelihood that more graphic novels in libraries will also lead to more challenges.
Chicken Spaghetti contemplates a striking similarity in armadillo poses found in two children’s books.
Here’s a game to play with Wikipedia.

I just finished reading The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl (a delightful YA novel by Barry Lyga which features a 15 year old protagonist who is semi-obsessed with Brian Michael Bendis). There’s a great scene where the main character runs into the school media center to look something up during a crisis and [...]

Librarything has an UnSuggester, shows you books you don’t want to read based on your reading habits. So if you’ve read Fruits Basket, you don’t want to read Sartre, Aristotle, Karl Marx, or Grisham.
I wonder if the unsuggestion data for comics and manga is a little skewed, because I only use LibraryThing to keep track [...]

It looks like along with Penn Tags,, there’s links from Yale. The yale product supports private and public link blog groups.

I went walking in Red Butte Garden.

A great post at Slaves of Academe {via}
Maintain IT project is collecting information from public libraries in order to identify best practices for public access computer support.
I’m stunned that TNT is making a sequel to the Noah Wyle Librarian movie.