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Presentation went well, I think. The attendees were of the "Help, my patrons are asking for this stuff and I don't know what it is!" type, so they were eager to learn. I mentioned - without naming names - the cataloger who wrote an article a year or so back who, when she described the elements of manga, got them all exactly wrong - and after the presentation a cataloger came up to me and asked if I'd be willing to co-write an article on cataloging manga. I said yes, of course ~~because my resume needs padding~~.

I realized, too late because my brain was dead, that I didn't make it clear that the reason I needed spectacular photos of costume either *photographed* by you or *of* you was because I was thinking about putting the powerpoint presentation up on the web afterwards, and in that case I couldn't grab random photos off Deviantart or cosplay.com because the photographer and/or cosplayer might run across them and get legitimately angry that I hadn't asked permission, and I didn't have time to do so. But the powerpoint presentation ended up imparting no extra information to the talk, and meaning nothing without the talk, so it's not going up.

And then the traffic jam from hell afterwards. And then a friend of mine came and picked me up from home - no way was I getting behind the wheel of a car again - and we went to dinner and talked about travel, me going on about Japan and her going on about the trip to Peru she and her husband are going on in November.

And this morning the migraine from hell - the kind where I get nauseated, and the sip of Coke Zero I took to wash down the meds was violently rejected by my body (although, strangely and luckily, no the pill), and I went back to sleep until, basically, 1PM. Still suffering migraine hangover.

Have poked through the

yuletide pages and made notes for offering/requesting, but am not going to make those choices while under migraine hangover, so will delay that until later.

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I'm glad the presentation went well, and hope the migraine hangover passes quickly.

For ye random photograb I usually do a Creative Commons search at flickr. Nemmind if I'm stating the obvious. :)

Ugh, migraine nausea. Hate. Started trying to take Dramamine for it recently, but don't know if it's helping.

So glad it went well. And whee, yuletide!

after the presentation a cataloger came up to me and asked if I'd be willing to co-write an article on cataloging manga.

I so wish you had already written this, as my final paper for my cataloging class is going to be on the organization of graphic novel collections. :P

They should all go into nonfiction under Art with all the other comic strips! Yeah!

(I seriously heard some cataloger somewhere argue this. Don't remember where, though.)

The library I used when I lived in Massachusetts had them in the 791s. (Well, at least some of them--the adult ones definitely were.)

I hope they're not there anymore, given that Robin Brenner is now the teen librarian for the system.

And then there are the systems who only have youth or youth and teen graphic novel collections--and who then buy mature-rated graphic novels, stick them in teen, and wonder why people are making a fuss. Er, well, duh.