The new issue of Cites and Insights has an excerpt of the book But Still They Blog: The Liblog Landscape 2007-2009, click on over for the PDF if you enjoy reading some interesting number crunching about library blogs. I find it a little odd to be included in the project, just because I don’t tend [...]

ALA’s Direct Dispatch blog has a Save Our Library poster available for download that was drawn by the Fillbach Brothers.

Here at the Good Comics For Kids Panel! It has quite the impressive handout listing resources. Brigid introduces panelists, and her own blog Manga Blog, the morning newspaper of the manga blog world. She discovered that there was a lack of kids comics blogs and started one. Was approached after running the 9 months by [...]

I’m getting ready to go to ALA for the first time in several years! If you’re going to be at the conference and want to meet up, let me know!

I will start out by saying that I am an unabashed fan of the Library War franchise. What is there not to love about stories where librarians fight censorship with machine guns? In Japan there are the original Library War novels, the shoujo and seinen manga versions of the story, the anime, and random tchotkes. [...]

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 [...]

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.