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"What's An MLIS Worth?" from Library Journal
"Why isn’t your headline 'why the hell are women still earning less than men?!?!'"--blog post response to article from librarian.net

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The Long Tail blog
The Long Tail by Chris Anderson

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Acronym Finder

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ALA Store Celebrity READ poster site

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"JK Rowling Outs Hogwarts Character"

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Coverage of the incident in the 10/16 Manchester Evening News
(lots of comments follow their post)

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Jules Feiffer's Bark, George is #1 on Jan's List of Kick-Ass Books for Storytime

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"Calling All Librarians" at Annoyed Librarian (be sure to read the comments).

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Shelf Check Turns 100

Okay, so 100 episodes is really young for a web comic. But still. To celebrate, I'm going to re-post here my own 3 favorites from the first 100 strips--for whatever reason, they aren't ones that seemed particularly popular with readers. Got a favorite "Shelf Check"? Use the labels on the right side of the page to look it up, and let me know in the comments. Thanks!

The term "inspirational fiction" is just so odd. My dad was a huge fan of the Conan books. I love Dave's obliviousness, and the word "Gwahlur."

"[Was] it bigger than a baby's arm?" is a reference to the early '90s film Pump Up the Volume. I like Jan's pause [...] before uttering that most evocative of words when speaking of the bookdrop: damp. And I think the Nietzsche line's classic--and true.

Poor Dave.

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I really, really recommend this book.

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Text of a letter to the library director and Bentonville mayor from the National Coalition Against Censorship

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"And Tango Makes Three Tops ALA's 2006 List of Most Challenged Books"
"March of the Penguin Protesters" from Guardian Unlimited Books, 5/23/07