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October 17, 2007
Library Humour
I love getting these library oriented cartoons in my reader. So today I've decided to blog my three favourite library cartoons and another two:
Unshelved (I've been reading this one since it was called Overdue) This one is the star of library land with a booth at ALA, speeches from the author/illustrator team, and bestselling book collections and t-shirts. Congratulations to Bill Barnes and "Gene Ambaum" (pseudonuym for a 'real' librarian" in the US) on keeping it funny, daily.
Shelf Check is wonderfully edgy. Emily Lloyd writing as Poesygalore writes a very timely strip, over 100 so far and managing daily production.
http://shelfcheck.blogspot.com/
Turn The Page is a newer strip. Jayson from Portland OR produces an irregular strip with a similarly skewed library humour.
http://librarycartoons.blogspot.com/
bLaugh is a strip for bloggers. Funny to me.
User Friendly is a daily strip with a great cast of characters from the programming and help desk work of software development. Nuff said.
http://userfriendly.org/
Anyway, you might enjoy them too although humour can be a very personal thing. You can add each of them to your blog aggregator and RSS reader. The you too can get a daily dose of fun.
It's a talent to be able to laugh at ourselves.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at October 17, 2007 4:46 AM
Comments
Thanks very much for the mention, Stephen! I'm glad you're enjoying Shelf Check.
Posted by: Emily Lloyd at October 17, 2007 12:11 PM
Hi Stephen,
I don't have a library humor cartoon, but a satirical library blog: the obnoxious librarian from hades. It is fueled by my real life experience as a corporate librarian and a good dosis of fantasy. So perhaps that is of interest to you as well, http://olfh.blogspot.com
regards,
Dennie
Posted by: Dennie Heye at October 18, 2007 3:13 AM
I just realized I had a few more visits to my blog than usual. To repeat what Emily said, thanks for the little write up, Stephen!
Posted by: Jayson at October 18, 2007 3:27 PM
In case you didn't notice: the link to UserFriendly isn't pointing to the main site, it's only pointing to an individual cartoon.
http://userfriendly.org/
Fixed
SA
Posted by: bentley at October 21, 2007 8:14 PM
This article is published by Stephens and he is
shearing his passion for library and reading
books with us.
Posted by: Ranjit Dass at February 14, 2008 2:25 AM