Nat asks, “What other type of career can a librarian (or, ahem, library assistant) use his
or her skills (like database searching, cataloging, book knowledge, etc?). Something that is not in another library, research institute, educational facility, or a bookstore.”
Let’s take a look at some of the entries in one of my favorite career reference books, [...]

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.

Sarah Writes, “Do you know where I can subcribe to free japanesse anime/movie catalogs that can be sent to my house?”
If I get any catalogs, usually they are from online stores where I’ve ordered anime in the past. One good catalog is from rightstuf, they often have great deals. It looks like their print catalog [...]

Stefan wants to know what the best Boston web sites are:
I think that the best place to go for buzz from Boston blogs and information about current events is Universal Hub. The guy who runs Universal Hub also runs Boston Online, which features handy articles like the wicked good guide to Boston English and a [...]

A question came in from someone looking for a good online secondary education dictionary. I was able to come up with a few links, but if anyone else out there has any good ideas, post some suggestions in the comments.
There’s always the old standby, the ERIC Thesarus which has short definitions for the terms listed.
There’s [...]

Julia wrote:
Hey did you see Scott from Polite Dissent’s cover picture today? Bunny peeps as the current Justice League!!
Even though Polite Dissent is one of my daily visits, I hadn’t seen this fabulous picture of JLA Peeps because I’ve been watching movies and knitting all morning! So thanks for the tip Julia, and everybody else [...]

So far, my nefarious plan to get my blog readers to feed me ideas for things to write about is working because if left on my own today I might have just ranted about Warren Worthington III having a sex change for the X-men 3 movie or how inane it is that people think it [...]

Meredith Wrote:
I read your last post about all of the classes you taught last semester (zoinks!) which now has disappeared.
Yeah, I pulled that post because I was worried that it was a little whiny, and when I redid my stats this morning after a good night’s sleep I realized my numbers were off slightly. My [...]

mlis wrote:
Hello. I would appreciate your help in selecting some librarian journals to subscribe to. I left my librarian job to go to grad school and no longer have easy access to librarian journals. If you had to choose 3 journals (Searcher or similar) to subscribe to, what would you choose? The CyberSkeptic™s Guide to [...]

Man! There’s a sudden rush of questions –
Rebecca wrote:
Hello! You recommend a lot of manga series, but what non-manga series would you
recommend?
I’ve been falling back on the regular comics blogging lately!
A couple oldies but goodies – Zot! by Scott McCloud is one of my all-time favorites. I also like Mage by Matt Wagner.
I [...]