Gail Borden Public Library - part 3

And this final post in the series is about the books!

These spine labels are, sadly, being phased out at Gail Borden. The figure there is the Knight Watchman, a comic book character created by local comic book artist Chris Ecker and used with his permission. They created an appropriately graphic sense of identity to the graphic novel section.

One of the first places I check out at every library is there graphic novel collections. What do they have? Do they not only have Carl Bark's classic Uncle Scrooge material represented, but modern master Don Rosa's work as well? And, almost as important, where do they shelve it? Do the staff recognize that Don Rosa's sense of history of the characters and elaborate plotting make these stories more appropriate for an adult audience than for children? Gail Borden's did.

And sometimes I just have exciting finds, like this amazing book as thick as two phone books, with the text of every spoken word from every episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus!

With annotations -- now no intellectual or topical reference in the TV series is too obscure for you to know about!

Uh-oh!  I discovered some serious spine damage. Would staff simply glue it onsite, or ship this off to a bindery? I knew one thing -- I wasn't checking this out unreported and getting blamed for it!  Worse, what if I turned the book in for repair...and they decided to weed it instead of repair it...?

Good news -- at the customer service desk, a note was put in the system that the book had this damage before checkout. I'm still concerned about it being weeded, but at least I'll get to read it first!