Unshelved

If you work in any type of customer service profession, this compilation of daily comics from Unshelved.com is for you! Gene and Bill do an excellent job of finding the humor in everyday life in a suburban library. So...CHECK IT OUT! (Okay, so my library humor is not quite as great as Bill and Gene's!)

The unshelved comics are great. I limit myself to 5 comics a day and unshelved definetly got a spot. When I first saw a recommendation for it I wasn't so sure since I average one visit a year to a library (this including when I was in college) but it is totally accessable to even non-libraries. I highly recommend checking it out!

Okay, I know what you're thinking - "A comic strip? About libraries? In what world is that supposed to be funny?" But surprise, surprise, this is funny, and you don't have to be a librarian or even well-read to enjoy this. If you haven't met him yet, I advise you to meet Dewey, Mallville's sarcastic, put-upon young adult librarian, who would rather be playing video games or reading comic books than doing any actual work. Watch as he takes on irate customers, nudist libertarian lawyers, a man who has legally changed his name to "Buddy the Book Beaver", a silent superhero called The Shusher, and just tries to make it through the day in one piece. Don't forget to check out the entire series!

Unshelved is the ongoing saga of life at the Mallville Public Library, featuring Dewey (the caffeine-addicted, comic-reading YA librarian), Mel (the new branch manager, who's just having the shine worn off...), Tamara (an overly-upbeat children's librarian), Colleen (the computer-illiterate reference librarian), Merv (a 12 year old who spends all of his free time in the library, although he doesn't actually read anything), and 'Buddy the Book Beaver' (long story). Wonderful stuff, which started life as an e-comic. The artwork starts out a little rough, but the creators soon get into the swing of things. The book itself is a good quality paperback - much better than I would expect from a self-published work.(...)

My wife works in a library so I bought this for her, after having read the strip online for months (http://www.overduemedia.com), and it was the best thing I've given her since the wedding ring. Her coworkers, who have pasted up printed-out strips and pinned them up all over the back room of the library, were quite envious. EXCELLENT book! Bill & Gene are working on Volume 2, due out soon.