11 June 2007

Book Review: Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Here is another venture into the graphic novel for me, or as the case, the graphic memoir. Alison Bechdel writer and illustrator of the classic comic Dykes to Watch Out For writes about her life and her relationship with her father in Fun Home (2006). Bechdel’s father was a high school English [...]

11 June 2007

Library Dust (and social networking)

Here’s another in my irregular series of posts of news and commentary related to my job.
Library Crunch writes on how a Culture of Fear is adversely affecting library services to teenagers.
Meanwhile, the ALA is putting some of teenagers’ favorite social networking tools to use for the library.
On Tame the Web, one individual reflects on her [...]