Here’s the big list
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Here’s the big list An example of broken library design A horrible comic book store shopping experience I can’t find a clip of this online, but I was watching TV tonight and saw a commercial for the Lied Library at UNLV. There were shots of the library’s impressive architecture and robotic book retrieval system, and the commercial followed a visitor to the library finding something to read and having a cup of [...] 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 [...] There’s an Alternative Press Festival at the City Library on December 5th, so check it out if you are curious about the zine scene. Here’s an article in Publishers Weekly about graphic novels at Columbia University, “Comics Go to the Ivy League“ Blog@Newsarama points out that a librarian got in trouble for recommending his daughter’s manga adaptation of Macbeth. From the same people that did the literal version of “Take on Me,” here is the literal version of Tears for Fears “Head Over Heels.” This is lovely music videos from the ’80s that features a monkey in a library, librarian stalking, and windy card catalogs: [...] Over at the Neon Season there’s a call for donations. Check it out if you have some manga to spare that would be appropriate for a school library. DC has canceled Minx, their YA line aimed at girls. I know some public libraries were adding Minx books to their graphic novel collections. It didn’t seem like there was much in the way of marketing for the line, and I’m not surprised that it is folding. In some ways it seemed like a halfhearted [...] |
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