I wanted to do a mini-round up of things related to the GGNT list.
Graphic Novel Reporter has a roundtable discussion explaining the history behind the list.
Over at Good Comics for Kids, a discussion of some of the titles that made it onto the list.
I was happy to see that the title I nominated, Ken Saito’s [...]

Robin Brenner has a very interesting post up at Good Comics for Kids, where she does some number-crunching with her manga and graphic novel circulation statistics. The most popular series aren’t what you might predict, which shows why it pays to pay close attention to circulation and patron requests when doing collection development for this [...]

Via Twitter, here’s a follow-up story on the library staffers who were fired over their actions denying a patron’s check-out of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. It was interesting that the reason why they found out that it was on hold by an 11 year old was because one of the employees [...]

Here’s a brief story about library staff who claim they were fired for not allowing an 11 year old to check out League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. There seems to be an odd amount of grandstanding going on in the article.

I didn’t realize that Ohio State University had a manga cataloging project. This is sure to make your heart go pitter-pat if you enjoy manga and MARC records and cataloging procedures.

There’s a roundtable discussion of Dragon Ball and libraries up on Good Comics for Kids in response to a recent challenge.

Even Banned Books Week has its detractors (surprise?) – Commentary from comics blog Robot 6
Banned Books Week, 2009 – Bookshelves of Doom provides a visual representation of how many banned books she’s read
First They Come for the Guinea Pigs – Commentary and links about recent book challenges from Oz and Ends
Ellen Hopkins was recently disinvited [...]

I don’t remember the last time I was so excited about a new manga license. Viz is going to put out the shoujo manga version of Library War, called Library War: Love and War. Library War is a tender love story about librarians who defend intellectual freedom with machine guns. How could any self-respecting librarian [...]

I enjoyed Toshokan Senso (Library War) but I’m not sure about Tatakau Shisho: The Book of Bantorra, as some of the characters seem to be having issues with their cleavage. Here’s the summary from Sea Slugs Anime Blog:
In a world where “Books” are the crystallized forms of the dead, Tonisu has his memory erased and [...]