Google Reader Round-Up

Articles and blog posts that have caught my interest lately, via my Google Reader(s):

The collections of the National Comic Book Museum, founded by Mort Walker of Beetle Bailey fame, which shut down in 2000, have been acquired by Ohio State University, and will become part of their Cartoon Research Library (which, incidentally, is currently hosting an exhibit about Jeff Smith Before Bone (cool!). I'm so pleased that these materials will be once again publicly available, and cared for in the long-term. (Via LISNews.org).

Kathryn Greenhill points to 20 questions about when one should stop blogging...found on ProBlogger...which ties nicely into my mini-crisis from about a month ago...which drew the notice of Jessamyn over on Librarian.net...Thanks! Keep those comments coming...

RareBookNews.com has a delightful story on the travels of a "Vinegar Bible".

U-T Austin has joined the Google Book Digitization Project. Via RareBookNews.Com.

The University of Salerno in southern Italy has set up a Museum of Counterfeit Art. Smithsonian Magazine Online Via BoingBoing. The art world is beginning to appreciate the art of forgery to a limited extent, much as bibliophiles appreciate the book forgeries of T.J. Wise...The University of Delaware hosts an archive related to the forgeries.