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	Managing Manga in Your Library YA Librarian Christian Zabriskie gives advice on how to develop, manage and grow a manga collection.

	Graphic Novels & Young Male Readers One of the biggest advantages of including graphic novels in your library is the medium's appeal to a demographic that traditionally shuns the library: young males.

	Starting a Graphic Novel Collection Deciding to include comic books and graphic novels in your collection is the first step into a larger world. Now, you must decide what to do once you're there.

	Cataloging Graphic Novels You have started your graphic novel collection! Now, you need to take care of the niggling details, such as how to catalog graphic novels, and where to shelve them.

	Graphic Novels for Children and Tweens: An Interview with David Serchay David Serchay is a youth services librarian for the Broward County Library System in Florida and a lifelong comic book reader. He is also the author of The Librarian’s Guide to Graphic Novels for Children and Tweens, a comprehensive collection development resource that has received favorable reviews from Booklist and VOYA, as well as a starred review from School Library Journal. Serchay was gracious enough to answer some questions for BookShelf about his approach to the book and the benefits to having graphic novels in libraries.

	My First Manga: Or How I Learned to Read “Backwards” and Love Asian Comics Is Manga popular with your patrons? Librarian Snow Wildsmith provides tips for learning how to understand and enjoy the format, with applications for reader's advisory and collection development.