April 10 Colloquium Features Humorous Look at Libraries.

The Nebraska Library Commission will again fund a colloquium event inviting Nebraska librarians to come to dinner and explore library issues and trends. A talk from the creators of Unshelved, the world’s only daily comic strip set in a public library, will be presented in Lincoln at the Spring Colloquium coordinated and arranged for by the Eastern and Southeast Library Systems. Writer Gene Ambaum (the made-up name of a real-life librarian) and co-writer and artist Bill Barnes have been publishing the strip since February 16, 2002. They say, “Some of the stories are made up, some of them are based on real life, and some are absolutely true stories sent to us from our readers. And the stranger the story, the more likely it is to be true.” Register for the Spring Colloquium, April 10, 5:30-9:30 p.m., Lincoln Cornhusker Hotel, at http://www.selsne.org/SColl08.pdf.