Lyle reports that someone’s picked up the rights to make an American version of Silent Library. You can watch some clips of the original Silent Library on YouTube.

I was randomly clicking through the cable channels the other day, and came across an episode of a show called “Style By Jury” that featured a makeover for a librarian. I only caught a few minutes, but it looked like a stylist was telling the librarian that her wardrobe was “overdue.” I stopped watching when [...]

Happyville Library Blog says goodbye
Evilsevier Seeks Victims
Plum blogging - Bully blogs Wodehouse

Peanuts Library Strips over at Scans Daily shows some nice early cartoons of Linus being traumatized by going to the library.

Your Life Work: The Librarian {via}
Bookhunter - a minicomic about library special agents tracking down missing books. {via}

Globe Theater message board overrun by comic book fans
Google Libraries and their digital book copies {via}
Hulk Respect Process

School Library bloggers are posting their answers to the recent American Libraries blog article survey questions, since they weren’t represented in the original article.
How the Public Library Became the Heartbreak Hotel
Inside Higher Ed on Information Literacy

Insurance in Gotham
Lest the Keepers of the Books Wreak a Terrible Vengeance

What is a Librarian?
The Joy of InterLibrary Loan
This article about faculty contributions to the IR at Cornell is why I think getting faculty to contribute content to an IR in the absence of some sort of mandate is like trying to maneuver a boulder made of jello up a steep hill.