Buzzfeed Books always seems to pull out something that makes all the librarians I know share the same list, but this month the site has really been showing libraries, and librarians, a lot of love. Here are three recent lists published in honour of libraries: 49 Breathtaking Libraries from All…
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Gorilla Librarian
Monty Python’s take on the library job interview.
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Cleveland Library to Unveil Harvey Pekar Statue
On October 14, the Lee Road branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Library will be unveiling a bronze Harvey Pekar statue. According to Comics Alliance, Pekar’s widow, Joyce Brabner, decided to start a Kickstarter to fund the statue to raise awareness for comics as a literary artform. Before his…
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A Queer Archive
During the Canadian Library Association National Conference and Tradeshow in Ottawa this past June, I met Chatham-Kent Public Library Board member, Mark Reinhart, who was on a panel discussing how to reach LGBTQ audiences in libraries. An artist as well as a library board member, Mark was on the panel…
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Zines an Emerging Trend in Librarianship
My dream job is to be a zine librarian. My original dream job was to be a journalist who wrote about zines. That came true in 2006 when I got the job editing Broken Pencil magazine. But in 2009 — after writing about film for various magazines for years (that…
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Comic artists at ALA
This video by cartoonist and filmmaker Derek Kirk Kim was taken at the American Library Association convention’s Artist Alley. In the video, comic creators talk about how refreshing it is to sell their work at a convention for librarians where the people coming to their tables are enthusiastic, curious and…
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To Thine Own Librarian Be True
Twitter is buzzing with the latest hashtag game #ReplaceAWordWithLibrarian. To play, tweeters take famous phrases from books and films and replace a word with “librarian.” For example: “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your librarian” (@NateCrowder), “Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my librarian. Prepare to die” (@CAwkward) and…
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Fight for Your Right