“And it’s free,” San Francisco Public Library in its own words, and pictures


Terrific long illustration of a day in the life of SFPL, by Wendy McNaughton.

cat and girl listen to the news

When you think of librarians you might think….”

comix about librarians

The geeky among you should have already heard of xkcd, for those who haven’t, they did a strip today about librarians. [thanks mike]

monkey in the library!

If the gorilla were so smart, you’d think he’d know that he doesn’t need to rob the library, they’d let him borrow the books for free. [thanks jake!]

Ranganathan applied to comics and elsewhere

Ranganathan’s Five Laws of Library Science and how they might apply to comics by Dave Carter former Internet Public Library superstar. Click here if you are asking Rangawho? There’s a good Rangnathan blurb over on It’s all Good this week too.