Great Graphic Novels for Teens out

Here’s the big list

A Couple Broken Things

An example of broken library design

A horrible comic book store shopping experience

Academic Library Commercial from UNLV

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 [...]

Bye Bye Library Blogs

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 [...]

Salt Lake City Alt Press Festival

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.

Graphic Novels in Academic Libraries

Here’s an article in Publishers Weekly about graphic novels at Columbia University, “Comics Go to the Ivy League“

Nepotism and Book Recommendations

Blog@Newsarama points out that a librarian got in trouble for recommending his daughter’s manga adaptation of Macbeth.

Literal Tears for Fears in a Library video

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:

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Manga for Native American High School Libraries

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.

Minx Canceled

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 [...]