Guest host Thomas Maluck chats with Matthew Murray about zine libraries, diversity in comics, and podcasting in the library world.

Matthew Murray is a Visiting Library Fellow at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas University Libraries. When he’s not trying to read all of the comics ever Matthew spends his time recording and editing the Book Club for Masochists readers’ advisory podcast, editing for the graphic novel review site No Flying No Tights, helping to run the Zine Pavilion at ALA, making the fiction anthology zine Two-Fisted Library Stories, and playing with Raspberry Pi computers and maker/technology stuff in general. He’s also willing to talk about why libraries are bad at cataloguing graphic novels for basically forever (or until they get better at it).

Thomas Maluck is a teen services librarian at Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina with an MLIS from the University of South Carolina. He served on YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels For Teens committee for its 2014 and 2015 lists and has presented about teen programming and collections at various library and pop culture conventions. When he’s not reading as a juror for the Cybils and SEE-IT awards, he reviews for No Flying, No Tights and co-hosts a podcast about comics and libraries, The Secret Stacks. A member of the library’s anime club gave him a Star Build Strike Gundam, the most prestigious award in teen librarianship.

SHOW NOTES:

Zines!

• Zine Pavilion at the American Library Association Annual Conference
• Zinelibraries.info
• Zine Librarians – Mailing List
• Zine Librarians – Facebook Group
• Zine Librarian (un)Conferences
• Whatcha mean, what’s a zine? Introducing Zine Collections and Small Press Publishing into Your Library Collections – Poster presentation at Canadian Library Association conference 2014

Two-Fisted Library Stories!

• Website
• Back Issues on Issuu
• Facebook
• Twitter Bot

Maker Stuff!

• The Raspberry Pi powered Readers’ Advisory Device
• “Critical Making with a Raspberry Pi – Towards a Conceptualization of Librarians as Makers” – Article | Poster.pdf">Poster

Work Stuff!

• ORCID @ University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries Pre-Pilot Report
• Flying Blind: Creating a Library ORCID Integration Pilot – Presentation at the 2018 Digital Initiatives Symposium on April 24th

Comics!

• Bringing the Library to the Comic Con article by Amie Wright about the library presence at Emerald City Comicon
• A Program Designed Specifically For Educators And Librarians at Emerald City Comicon this year on March 1st
• Comics Conference for Educators and Librarians – 2017’s library events at San Diego Comic-Con
  • More info about this year’s plans at this link
• No Flying No Tights – Comic review site by and for library people
• Tintin in the Congo – Wikipedia
• Comics on a Hot Tintin Roof – Matthew’s visit to the Hergé Museum
• The Hilda comics by Luke Pearson
• Giant Days, vol. 1 (Goodreads) by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, and Max Sarin
• Monstress, vol. 1 (Goodreads) by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
• ALA Graphic Novels & Comics in Libraries MIG – Facebook Group
• Secret Stacks – Thomas’ podcast

Podcasting!

• Book Club for Masochists – Podcast
  • Best of 2017 episode
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
• Library Podcasters – Mailing List

Other Links!

• #CritLib – The Critical Librarianship website
• League of Librarian Gamers – ALA GameRT – Facebook Group
• Readers’ Advisory for Library Staff – Facebook Group

Matthew!

• Matthew’s Website
• Twitter: @MidniteLibrary
• Email: thematthewmurray@gmail.com