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.

Greg writes:
I am compiling an annotated bibliography…The topic I am working on is the impact of blogs and what I am calling “web 2.0″ applications on libraries (the behind the scenes aspect with the biblioblogosphere as well as on patrons).
So far, I have the following books:
Clyde, L. (2004). Weblogs and libraries. Oxford: Chandos Publishing.
Anderson, [...]

A Librarian Scorned
Mangablog points out the new Tokyopop age ratings. They seem so very mix and matchable. I wonder what a title would be like if it was rated:
Cartoon Violence
Non-sexual Nondescript Nudity
Illegal Drug Reference
Occultism
Moderate Gore

Batgirl in the Information RAGE
IM reference: refuge of the shiftless and lazy

LISNews posted about the new usability site set up at the University of Michigan Library.
Seth writes about a google bombing campaign to push martinlutherking.org further down the list of google results. I found this slightly amusing, because one of the reasons why the hate site has such great google juice is due to plenty of [...]

It is pretty awesome that American Born Chinese won the Prinz.
ALA Great Graphic Novels for Teens List
Library Panels for NY Comicon posted:

Open Access News pointed to this article from Nature about Elsevier, Wiley and the American Chemical Society getting advice from a public relations person to focus on messages like “Public access equals government censorship.” The whole thing made me think that the AAP and these various publishers are living in the same world as the [...]