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 [...]

As I do nowadays, I was poking around some scholarly communication and collection development resources at other institutions. I was really surprised when I was looking at this collection development page, I clicked on a link expecting to be directed here. Unfortunately the outgoing link on the library collections page was misspelled in a couple [...]

I tried to track down an article today without much success, and I took screenshots because at one point I wondered at which stage I’d have given up if I was a normal library patron, not a librarian who has an inclination to exhaust every possibility when trying to track something down.
Step 1:
I’ve found [...]

Paper Mirror
Archie Reacts to Change
Paper grading practices (via insidehighered)
Batgirl Pilot (via ?)

Nice to be awesome
Invincible vs Tsubasa
This was posted on the Next Gen Catalog listserv :
MIT User Needs Assessment - MIT library surveyed information seeking behavior of users by having them keep an information seeking diary, followed by interviews.

Wow, MangaBlog reports that You Higuri has created a poster for ALA which will go on sale in January. The poster will feature Cesare from Higuri’s series Cantarella.