In my library job, I have a lot of duties. Some of them are trivial and some of them are fantastic. I'm finding that this latest series of duties to be really, really fun.

To wit: I am making a list of books to purchase. This is awesome, because not only do I get to spend someone else's money, I get the opportunity to put a little bit of myself into the library. I'm looking for graphic novels at the moment. I have to keep reminding myself to balance the trade paperback comic book graphic novels with the hard hitting, edgy, biographical ones. I'm not a huge fan of the boring stuff, but there some that look really good. One in particular is called Baghdad Pride. It's the story of four lions from the Baghdad zoo that escape during the bombing of the city in 2003. The lions and other creatures are sentient in this novelization, so it's interesting to see their take on the surrounding events. I only got a limited preview, but already I know that this is one of the books that I need to get my hands on.

Another graphic novel i'm thinking of getting is the Buffy collection. I know you'll say that I'm jsut getting them for myself, which is not true since I already own them all, but I think that if we had them, we could get more YA girls into the stacks. Chicks these days are not the Babysitters club readers they used to be. They're into Halo now, and all of those other shoot em up games that the boys are into. It's quite interesting. I'm trying to find a line between girly and guns without being cliche. I just know that some girls don't want princess books anymore.