The Animana Club dates can be found listed in our Program Calendar (along with the rest of our library programs).  If you have trouble you can use the searchbox at the bottom of the calendar to search for just "animanga".

Avenue diner -- on the North side of Michigan Avenue between Haggerty and Lilley -- is really quite excellent. The food is very fresh, and the atmosphere is the type of diner that you want to become a "regular" at.

I suggest the sweet potato fries

I'm always looking for great new websites that I can use to find book recommendations. One of my favorites is BookBrowse. The main page of the website starts you right off with pictures and reviews of popular books. They have some great search features of course, but I rarely need to go much further than the first page. Does anyone else have a favorite website for book recommendations?

The budget outlook for the library remains bleak in 2011. As I wrote last year, the deepening recession and declining property values mean less money coming in to the library — 95% of our 2010 revenues come from taxes Canton property owners pay to support library programs, collections, and services — which means more cuts for the next several years.

In 2011, our budget will drop another $300,000, to $4.9 million, bringing our cumulative total cuts since 2008 to $1.6 million. $4.9 million is the size our budget was in 2004, when we served 15,000 fewer people, checked out 600,000 fewer items, and had 40% more staff.

So, we've started to make some changes to freshen things up around here. We've now got a new gallery feature which is pretty sweet. It should atuomatically catch an image you put into a post and reproduce it in a viewable gallery. Check it out. It'll only take the first post in a thread though. The images in everything after that (the 'comments') won't transfer, so it means you'll need to start a new thread for each peice of artwork. You can find it right now by going to the link at the very top of the gallery forum topic page that says gallery-ish page. Let us know what you think!
Get directions for uploading your art here.

Okay, we need to get people more informed about this site. I say we announce the new URL next meeting, because that's probably the biggest reason there aren't a lot of people here. At least I think so.

Anyway, on to the topic, because we need a new one of those. What anime or manga do you think is underated and deserves more attention?

On the flip side, which anime do you think is overrated?

Personally, I think a lot of the anime with a 13 or less episode count don't get a lot of attention because it's not long enough to become popular,or to make a big impact. Which is really sad because there are a lot of anime, like Zombie-Loan, that are awesome, that don't get a lot of attention.

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This week we would like to know (in the comments) — What inspires you?

I turned in 5 items on Monday, 1/18. One of the items is still showing on my list of borrowed items: Rome City Map 35149003001835 DUE 01-23-10 Renewed 1 time MAPS 914.563 R I am absolutely certain that I returned it on Monday. Please remove it from my list. Thank you.