Johanna links toTokyopop’s Out of Print List. I think it is criminal that Clamp’s Clover is out of print, but I’m glad I snapped up my copies before they became difficult to find. It does still look like some online bookstores have copies of the series.
Rightstuf has a 33% off Del Rey Manga sale.
This new [...]

David Lee King’s Videoblogging Resources
Meet your ALA councilor
Data Obsessed points out Research Beyond Google and a discussion of what to call information literacy over at Stephen Abrams blog.
Whenever I see people debating about terminology for something, I just want to call the thing “Fred”. I have no idea why my immediate reaction is [...]

When you are adding metadata to an item, what music do you listen to? I’ve had Robbie Williams’ cover of “Freedom” on repeat for a good portion of the afternoon.

Rochelle blogs about visiting the library in Second Life. I thought the comments posted to her blog were interesting.

I’m going to be on the judging panel for the Cybils graphic novel awards. You can nominate a graphic novel published in 2006, just post the book you want to nominate in the comments on the post I linked. Nov 20th is the deadline for nominations.

Some people want to implement social tagging in existing library applications. While I use delicious all the time, and I’d like to have a better way of accessing things than LCSH, I don’t think that social tagging alone is the answer. That being said, look at this lovely example of social tagging in action that [...]

Oyayubihime Infinity by Toru Fujieda
(amazon)
Oyayubihime Infinity has one of those convoluted set-ups that you can only find in shojo manga. Kanoko keeps to herself and spends most of her time at school using e-mail on her cell phone. She has to keep in close contact with her older sister, an aspiring actress with [...]

Great Moments in Manga Baking (features scans of Antique Bakery, Yakitate! Japan, and Iron Wok Jan)
Baby Paranoia Contest (win a mini-comic)

Books
Mauve by Simon Winchester - I don’t read non-fiction very much, but I enjoyed this history about the developments of early chemistry, and the effects of the discovery of synthetic dyes.
Midnighters by Scott Westerfeld - This was the selection for my YA book group this month, I enjoyed it. It would be a good book [...]