These websites are great resources for collection development, for finding the best ways to describe the materials, and for finding reviews and other information that can be used to share the resources with our patrons. If you're aware of other good websites, feel free to leave more addresses in the comments!
No Flying No Tights
http://www.noflyingnotights.com/index2.html
This popular website is perfect because it reviews Graphic Novels for teens.They even have a “core lists” section for librarians and teachers that want to start developing a collection.
Columbia University's Graphic Novels Page
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eguides/graphic_novels/index.html
This website includes information about their own collection, including their collection development policy, and links to many more resources and guides. Their website provides both general-level information that would be interesting to fans and more specific information useful to librarians or anyone doing academic research in this field.
Gilles Poitras' http://www.koyagi.com
Includes a great "Librarian's Guide to Anime and Manga" and list of "Recommended Manga" as well.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia can be a wonderful source of information about these materials, often very well organized and documented with links to publishers, awards, and other relevant websites. Of course it would be wise to verify information from a more authoritative source, but the breadt h and depth of information available through these pages makes it a wonderful place to start. Here are a few of the applicable category pages where you can browse the sorts of information you can find on individual pages:
- USA Comic Books - there are separate categories by publisher, with amazingly detailed pages giving much more information about characters and history than you'll find even in the reference books. Here's are the top ones:
- Comic Strips (this category is primarily for "funnies" style comics)
- Graphic Novels - less useful than the Comic Book categories, but may grow in the future
- Webcomics - This is a hard category to quantify or review, since it is constantly changing, but the Wikipedia entry is as good a place as any to begin to familiarize yourself with them.
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Another interesting resource is the following article on graphic novels/background/collections by YA guru Kat Kan:
http://www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/kqweb/kqarchives/volume35/351kan.cfm
It's actually an article on the website for the American Association of School Librarians (AASL). Kat Kan is a longtime teen services librarian who is active on the graphic novel scene, writing reviews and articles on the No Flying, No Tights website among other things.
YALSA, the YA arm of the ALA, has a new special designation/booklist called "Great Graphic Novels for Teens."
http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/booklistsawards/greatgraphicnovelsforteens/gn.cfm
The lists include NF and all sorts of Fiction, DC/Marvel story arc compilations, and a variety of series. Annotated lists are available only to members.
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