{"id":1654,"date":"2007-11-01T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2007\/11\/01\/bookhunter-a-library-detective-story\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T14:41:00","slug":"bookhunter-a-library-detective-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2007\/11\/01\/bookhunter-a-library-detective-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookhunter &#8211; a library detective story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMedia Services News is happy to begin sharing this comic by Jason Shiga. Jason&#8217;s tense, gripping drama rips the lid off the seamy underbelly of the library world. Reproduced with permission, we will have a new installment each Monday.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/admin2.american.edu\/~sc6950a\/bookhunter\/title_page.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127886235172956706\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MxEMs6Pn_Dg\/RynpXLgZaiI\/AAAAAAAAABA\/MK2XO73dAA8\/s200\/dcover2.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The entire comic can be seen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shigabooks.com\/books\/bookhunter.html\">shigabooks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">&#8220;The year is 1973. A priceless book has been stolen from the Oakland Public Library. A crack team of Bookhunters (aka. library police) have less than three days to recover the stolen item. It&#8217;s a race against the clock as our heroes use every tool in their arsenal of library equipment to find the book and the mastermind who stole it.<\/p>\n<p>While this story is based on an <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/palimpsest.stanford.edu\/byform\/mailing-lists\/bookarts\/1998\/03\/msg00563.html\" target=\"_parent\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-size:85%\">actual case<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%\">, it has been highly fictionalized. I took some liberties with architecture as well. For example, the library of this comic does not in fact exist. It is a hybrid of Oakland Main and the old Berkeley Central library.&#8221;<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media Services News is happy to begin sharing this comic by Jason Shiga. Jason&#8217;s tense, gripping drama rips the lid off the seamy underbelly of the library world. Reproduced with permission, we will have a new installment each Monday.The entire comic can be seen at shigabooks.com &#8220;The year is 1973. A priceless book has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookhunter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}