Profile of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Graphic Novels Collection
A comic book fan who happens to read my blog occasionally bugged me to post about this interview about the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s collection of graphic novels with librarian Don Wentworh.
Libraries with graphic novels and comic books in their collections are new to me. I’m very certain the library where I grew up didn’t have such materials. My local public library does now, though. I find it interesting that the CLP librarians acknowledge adults read graphic novels by shelving some of them in sections targeted toward adults (i.e. not just in the young adult section).
Just so I can plug Banned Books Week at least one more time, they talk about some of the controversy of having graphic novels in the collection.
October 6th, 2004 at 9:17 pm
Is paper a necessary part of the equation? (Text+Graphics=web page). Even though the printed page in book format is by far still the best delivery method for ideas, the number of eyeballs keep growing in this area.