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Content / e-booksOpen Library Launches New “Digitize and Lend” E-Book Lending Program
Open Library, a group of more than 150 libraries led by the Internet Archive, has announced plans to lend browser-based digital editions of e-books, beginning with a new, cooperative 80,000+ e-book lending collection of mostly 20th-century books.
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Interviews
The Googlization of Books
There have been a few popular books in recent years detailing Google's ascent in the digital world, notably Ken Auletta's Googled: The End of the World as We Know It and Jeff Jarvis's What Would Google Do. But there is another story, says author and media scholar Siva Vai-dhyanathan.
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Comics
Comics On the Library Reference Shelf
There are some venerable veterans in the battle to place comics on library shelves and one of the best known is Katharine “Kat” Kan, who has been writing about comics in schools for over fifteen years. She is also the editor of Graphic Novels and Comic Books, a new reference work on comics aimed at both librarians and the general reader that has just been released by H.W. Wilson.
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Comics
'Whaddaya Got?' Finding Graphic Novels in an Academic Library
Academic libraries are beginning to embrace graphic novels for their circulating collections. Unfortunately, because of inconsistencies in the Library of Congress classification model, locating graphic novels in an academic library collection can be challenging.
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Comics
Jeff Smith Responds to Bone School Library Challenge
Jeff Smith's epic fantasy tale, Bone, is widely regarded as one of the best all-ages graphic novels, so it came as something of a surprise when an Apple Valley, Minnesota woman, Ramona DeLay, requested that the fourth volume of the series be removed from her son's elementary school library. Smith was a guest of honor at the Chicago Comics and Entertainment Expo (C2E2) when the news broke, and although his weekend included panel appearances, signings, and the showing of the movie The Cartoonist (a documentary about Smith), he took a few minutes to discuss his reaction to the challenge.
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Comics
Funnies Business: Quantifying Library Penetration for Graphic Novels
Did you ever wonder how many copies a graphic novel could sell in the library system? Figuring out what a graphic novel could do is a bit of a puzzle. Libraries are an up and coming market for graphic novels (or “graphic fiction” or reprint collections; go ahead and pick your terms of choice).
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Resistance Grows as Google Deadline Nears
With a May 5 deadline looming for parties to opt-out of or object to the Google Book Search settlement, Gail Knight Steinbeck, who manages husband Thomas Steinbeck's affairs and the literary estate of John Steinbeck, expressed “grave concerns” over the “pressing deadline” and said she has hired an attorney and is “organizing a group of very high profile, concerned ...
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Comics
Comics Go to the Ivy League
Academic Librarian Karen Green has successfully made the case for the literary legitimacy of comics at one of the most elite schools in the nation, and transformed Columbia’s collection of graphic novels from a paltry few to over 800 books and climbing.
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Comics
Talking Comics with Librarians
Librarians like Kat Kan, Robin Brenner and Mike Pawuk continue to be some of the most important boosters of the graphic novel format.
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Comic Book Reviews
MoCCA Library Goes Public
New York City's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art announced plans to open its comic book library to the public in July with a larger selection of books, a redesigned space and expanded seating. MoCCA is also seeking donations from artists, fans and publishers to expand the library's holdings.
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Stackfest: Librarians in the Comics Fray
Four graphic novel panels aimed at librarians took up the trade day on Friday during the second New York Comic-Con. Sponsored by Brodart, Diamond Book Distributors and Library Journal, “Stackfest,” as the series of panels were dubbed, attracted 60—100 librarians of the 400 who had registered for the con.
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Comics
Unshelved: Laughter in the Stacks
Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum, creators of the Web comic Unshelved, are the comedic patron saints of the library world
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Library Pulls 'Fun Home,' 'Blankets'
At a meeting to decide whether to remove two graphic novels from circulation, the board of trustees of the Marshall, Mo. public library have decided to appoint a committee to develop a materials selection policy.
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Librarians Talk about Sex in Manga
It's a classic manga scenario: a cute girl and a bumbling guy. A gust of wind blows up her skirt revealing her underwear and the guy gets a nosebleed. Nosebleeds represent sexual overtones and they are common in manga. So what's a librarian to do about supplying books to teens and children who may not be appropriate for them?
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