Winners! Most likely..NJ librarians survey!

Coming out of a funny ALA conversation, I crafted the Most Likely to..NJ librarians survey in the style of high school superlatives. It was a hard, draining spring with the budget cuts and advocacy work so I personally needed some humor.

I loved seeing librarians I know get votes, and makes me interested in those I don't know.

Without further ado-- the Winners and those who also got votes!

1. Most interesting NJ librarian to hear presenting?

Winner: Pete Bromberg

Clearly an amazing presenter and librarian, so fortunate to have him in Jersey libraries!

Karen Hyman
John LeMasney
Janie Hermann
Robert Lackie
Grace Agnew
Sophie Brookover
Karen Klapperstuck
Andy Woodworth

Other comments:
Robert Lackie, Peter Bromberg and Janie Hermann. I have seen all three together in workshops at the same time and that is the best. Mad props to the Library Garden gang.

Most YA librarians, love the stories

2. NJ Librarian you like to read on Twitter?

Winner: Andy Woodworth

Always one of the most thoughtful and prolific librarians, in NJ and nationally, we are so glad Andy didn’t become a lawyer! Proud to call him friend.

JP Porcaro
Val Forrestal
Karen Klapperstuck
Janie Hermann

(Thanks to those who voted for me in this category, I appreciate it!)

3. NJ Library director or manager you'd most like to work for?

Winner: Leslie Burger, Princeton Public Library

The top 3 vote getters are all at Princeton PL; hmm, they have a good thing going!

Pete Bromberg
Janie Hermann
Karen Klapperstuck
David Calvanico
Mary Martin
Bruce Whitham
Irene Goldberg


4. NJ library or library system you'd like to work for?

Princeton Public Library
Winner by a mile!

Burlington Cty
Ocean County
Ocean City
Mt Laurel
Seton Hall
Avalon
Highland Park
Cherry Hill
Avalon
Camden

5. Best children's librarian in Jersey?

Winner: Sophie Brookover
The amazing Sophie wins a very tight race! She teaches me about juvenile graphic novels. Pop goes the library at the top!

Liz Burns
Sharon Rawlins
Selwa Shamy , Somerset Cty
Meg Bezdek McCarthy
Mary Ecklund
Lisa Taylor, Barnegat Branch, Ocean County
Allison Santos
Danielle Behmke
Chrissy George

It was Justin Hoenke.

6. Best academic librarian in Jersey?

Winners: Trevor Dawes
Valerie Forrestal
Robert Lackie

A three way tie here! All well deserved, for their interesting and committed styles!

Lisa Coats
Marie Radford, Rutgers
Mary Mallory
Kurt Wagner
JP Porcaro
Nicole Cooke
Craig Anderson
Gary Schmidt

7. NJ librarian that cracks you up (best sense of humor)

Winners: JP Porcaro
Pete Bromberg

Ah, I’ve been lucky enough to hang out on several occasions with these two and can vouch for the comedy! And there are several comedians on the list I haven’t yet met, but definitely want to now!

Val Forrestal
Will Porter
Ty Rousseau
Sandi Cronce, Willingboro
Dena Price
Arlene Saharie
Saleena Davidson
Robert Lackie


8. Most attractive Guybrarian in Jersey?

Winners: JP Porcaro
Pete Bromberg

As every girl knows, a good sense of humor and personality makes a man highly attractive! Winners in both categories Pete and JP!

Ty Rousseau
Trevor Dawes
Michael Maziekien
Dan O’Conner
Chuck Dolan, Middlesex County College
Chris Carbone
Andy Woodworth
Craig Anderson

“none”
Justin Hoenke, Patrick Sweeney



9. Most attractive female librarian in Jersey?

Winner: Karen Klapperstuck

I’m glad to see the NJ library community appreciates redheads! Yea Karen- smart, funny, and attractive!

Val Forrestal
Kim Paone
Kate Kosturski
Kate Vasilik
Beth Cackowski
Sharon Rawlins, NJSL

(Thanks to those who voted for me in this category, I appreciate it!)


10. NJ librarian with the best hair?

JP has pretty hair! And we love it! And again, Karen reps for the redheads!

Winner, Male: JP Porcaro
Winner, Female: Karen Klapperstuck

Allen McGinley
Justin Hoenke
Kim Paone
Beth Cackowski
Suzanne Bromberg
Justin Hoenke
(Thanks to those who voted for me in this category, I appreciate it!)

Librarian stories

Two stories regarding librarians this week-

L passed this one on, Librarian fined $500 for praising daughter's illustrations
He's being punished for promoting his daughter's graphic novel on the job.
Macbeth- the Manga version- is the book his daughter co-illustrated. We own several of these classic manga titles at our library.

Gunman kills fellow librarian
A very tragic story in which a PT 62 year librarian kills 37 year Devin Zimmerman, a librarian and a professor at NE Lakeview College in Texas. This stemmed from a dispute over "work ethic".

Shoreturtle picked up my weeks of comics, so I'll have more to review soon. It has been a very busy week of programs, computer training, wireless malfunctions, and new TV installed for our movie series. I'm looking forward to hanging at home this weekend, and getting some things done. Have a good weekend!

Librarians stock comics article

Librarians Harvest New Manga Titles At Comic-Con
Are the shelves at your local library looking more colorful these days? Chalk it up to all the comic books — and the librarians who love them.

Librarian comics

Go Blue librarians

http://yetanothercomicsblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/read-irresponsibly.html

Have you seen comic friend/librarian Dave Carter's flickr poster? He is reading Eightball #22. It's so excellent! Go Blue librarians! Shoreturtle should like this too.

the one with me on the steps

[me at Warner Bros, on the steps where they filmed that Rachel prom one. I'm trying to look sad and play keyboards like Ross did]Friends reunion would be Ross-less

Just finished the memoir If I am missing or dead
Janine Latus writes honestly about her relationships with men, and her sister, who find did two seemingly well-adjusted, successful women end up in strings of physically or emotionally abusive relationships with men

Britain embraces the graphic novel
the success of Briggs' ETHEL & ERNEST, not to mention Chris Ware's surprise win of the Guardian First Book Award, has had publishers snapping up would-be graphic novel stars

Top 25 Librarian bloggers (- or libloggers- no love for the librarian/comic bloggers)

Sorry, the house selling and buying sucks the life and time out of me. Hang in and in October I should be back!

Ask, and a librarian will tell you where to go

After all the positive connections in the last few years between the comic and the library world, there was not one, but TWO panels in the past two weeks that were negative to libraries and librarians.

Library offense 1: Black Canary 1
"a librarian or whatever blessedly boring thing you like-".

Writer Tony Bedard should spend a week at the reference desk with me. There are some moments where it can be quiet, but it is not blessedly boring. This week for instance, several known patrons are all over the press for being involved in Bloods and Crips drive by shootings. Summer reading programs, computer classes, business assistance, displays, movies, program planning, and more were packed into my six day week. I hate this stereotype that libraries are shushed places where the staff just drinks tea and reads classic literature at their damn desk!

Library offense 2: from one of my favorite writers, Sean McKeever on SpiderMan Loves Mary Jane 20:

I hate the false reinforcement that libraries have been replaced by the internet. In fact, visit a public library in the United States and you'll find they are being used more heavily each year. The Internet has led to dramatic increases in the circulation of all library information services and materials in ways that extend the use of those services well beyond the walls of the brick and mortar building.

I know that in every catagory- from the people counter to computer usage to program attendance- my public library has grown, sometimes with dramatic numbers. We know Peter Parker is a nerdy scholar, and maybe McKeever is even wink-winking this, but I know some people will take this at face value as fact.

And on his last SMLMJ issue! He does make up for it in this redhead lovin' panel:

Hipper crowd of shushers

Friend J from The Full Catastrophe was the first to send this to me, since then it's been on all the library sites..

NY Times article on a group of modern librarians-

Librarians? Aren’t they supposed to be bespectacled women with a love of classic books and a perpetual annoyance with talkative patrons — the ultimate humorless shushers?

Not any more. With so much of the job involving technology and with a focus now on finding and sharing information beyond just what is available in books, a new type of librarian is emerging — the kind that, according to the Web site Librarian Avengers, is “looking to put the ‘hep cat’ in cataloguing.”

GalleyCat summary

Dynamo - nerdy librarian types

Dynamo 5 #2 um, mentions librarians...at least in the stereotype that the jock football type thinks of. I liked the first two issues, the building of the team of Captain Dynamo's kids and I do like the strength of his widow Maddie Warner. The female characters, Scrap and Slingshot, are posed sometimes too sexualized for me. I did like Jay Faerber's explanation that the 'big guy' the power to read minds instead of super-strength, which Scrap has to throw around cars and generally Hulk-smash.

About the Comicon...

A really good response to yesterday's show from guests and dealers and even the public! Because of many additional expenses, the only downer is we barely broke even financially. There were even two other librarians- a great library director and an archivist who had a table selling original art.
It was organized, good, nice door prizes...and now I have a lot of post things to do, but it's nice to put it to bed. Michael Golden was a great special guest, and it was fun to see even the professionals happy to see him there. He'll be next at the Emerald City Con this weekend.
Thanks to staff PhillyGirl, Shoreturtle and JohnO!

Wanna see photos of: a Stormtrooper, artists, writers, fans, Variant Edition interviews, door prize winners, and me reading Gumby 3D!
MidJersey Comicon 2007 photos

Graphic novels- thanks librarians and women!

The young and the graphic novel
Discusses all ages graphic novels like Bone, or YA like American Born Chinese, and how awesome and dedicated librarians (OK, my note) have started to create real demand for these titles.

Librarians have been saying for 10 years now that comics are always off the shelves," he said. "That's real reader demand. There's more of that than publishers think."

"Bookstores and libraries seem to be moving these books," said Deb Wayshak, editor of the new graphic-novel version of Beowulf by Gareth Hinds, the first graphic novel published by Candlewick Press. "

Graphic Novel Sales Hit $330 Million in 2006
The market has quadrupled since 2001, according to Griepp, driven by the continuing manga explosion and also the strength of the backlist in American genre comics, as well as new material with wide appeal such as Fun Home and the comics adaptation of The 9/11 Commission Report.

One of the drivers for the category's growth continues to be the increase in female readers...
Killen confirmed that nonfiction and memoirs sold well in 2006, with the usual suspects like Persepolis mentioned. "These books have a huge resonance for females. In the same way there was an explosion in manga six or seven years ago, fueled by Sailor Moon and shojo titles, we're seeing this category spread into the mainstream."

Random--
New Venom stills Topher and Tobey!

Rorschach test shot I discussed earlier my reluctance to see a Watchmen movie.

R2D2 Mailboxes

Is anyone else depressed that Veronica Mars ratings are lower than The search for the new Pussycat Doll? A whipsmart heroine replaced by, let's face it, strippers? Don't cha wish?

Library has provided many DVDs, and have to say some of these films were disappointing.
The Black Dahlia- Ellroy's words and De Palma directing, but just off in casting and execution. Scoop- #2 Scarlet movie that struck out; actually stopped watching. Best of these three was Sherrybaby- Maggie was dead-on as the just out of jail mom who uses her sex and tries to do right, yet it was hard to watch.