LISNews posted about the new usability site set up at the University of Michigan Library.
Seth writes about a google bombing campaign to push martinlutherking.org further down the list of google results. I found this slightly amusing, because one of the reasons why the hate site has such great google juice is due to plenty of […]

It is pretty awesome that American Born Chinese won the Prinz.
ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens List
Library Panels for NY Comicon posted:

Open Access News pointed to this article from Nature about Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society getting advice from a public relations person to focus on messages like “Public access equals government censorship.” The whole thing made me think that the AAP and these various publishers are living in the same world as the […]

One of the few Sundance movies my husband was able to get tickets to was Katsuhiro Otomo’s Mushishi or Bugmaster. First of all, I don’t think I was in the right frame of mind to appreciate the movie, because I was tired and watching it late at night. The circular and meandering plot centers around […]

One of the more loathsome daily reminders of the decorating taste of the former owner of our condo, who I tend to call “that woman,” is her dining room light fixture:

The picture is a little blurry, so you are spared seeing the dragonflies decorating the lampshade, and the sickly-looking amber plastic beading dangling about. This […]

To Terra by Keiko Takemiya (amazon.com)
Earth has been ruined by humanity, so people take to the stars. Society in the future is extremely rigid, and reproduction is strictly controlled. Test tube babies are assigned to foster parents until the day of their Awakening around their fourteenth birthday. Jomy seems a bit different from everyone […]

These memes spread like a horrible virulent disease. I’ve been tagged again.
So, 6 weird things about me:
1) During my high school years, I attended 4 different high schools in two states.
2) I’ve studied Russian, French, and Japanese, although I only remember a little bit of French and some Japanese.
3) A cult (or just some strange […]

It is National Delurking Week again! If you lurk here, please post a comment to say “Hi!”

As I do nowadays, I was poking around some scholarly communication and collection development resources at other institutions. I was really surprised when I was looking at this collection development page, I clicked on a link expecting to be directed here. Unfortunately the outgoing link on the library collections page was misspelled in a couple […]

Hmm, I’ve been tagged by Chicken Spaghetti and need to write 5 things about me, based on blog posts.
1) This has been a busy year. I got married and moved Out West after living on the East Coast for almost 4 years.
2) Other than the horrific wine closet, and a few ugly light fixtures, my […]