I’m pleased to announce a new web site: Manga Views. Manga Views is designed to be a gathering place for manga readers and manga bloggers. We’re collecting reviews of manga with the intent of being able to provide readers with a snapshot of bloggers’ opinions for manga titles. You can take a look at the [...]

Sometimes I use my librarian powers of searching for evil. Check out Chris Sims’ This Stuff Sucks: The Worst (And Weirdest) Vampire Products, where I contributed a couple product suggestions.

So if you haven’t already, head over to the Cybils and get to nominating!

The nomination form for the Cybils is now open. They’ve improved their nomination process – instead of listing everything in the comments section of a blog post, there’s a nomination form and you can check to see what’s been nominated online. Here are the current nominations in the graphic novel category.

Welcome the new team at When Fangirls Attack! They’ve already started linkblogging.

When Fangirls Attack is looking for new bloggers. When Ragnell and Kalinara decided to step down, I decided to stop too. I figure that way whoever takes it over will have a clean slate to start with. I may add a little bit of manga linkblogging to this site instead.

I always feel a little sad when a blog I follow gets shut down. Tales From the Liberry is morphing into Borderland Tales and Ref Grunt is officially retiring to a life of more anonymous tweeting. I’ve felt removed from the library blogging scene for some time, and these two blogs were among the group [...]

Check out BitterAndrew’s new blog, pronounced WOO-BIN for all your current and future Massachusetts accent needs.

I’m on Twitter now! I’m expecting to be posting many mini-updates about the agony of dealing with two simultaneously teething babies.

Check out Word Balloons, a new blog devoted to comic books for kids. It should be excellent, Mangablog’s Brigid Alverson has put together a great group of contributors. I think this blog will really come in handy for librarians who work with children.