Katharine “Kat” Kan, a longtime librarian and advocate for putting comics in libraries, died on October 12. She was 71. Kan was so passionate about her work that, according to an obituary written by her husband, “she refused to retire until her deteriorated health forced her to just weeks before death.”
Annisija Hunter, subject librarian at Hilton M. Briggs Library at South Dakota State University, has received the prestigious 2026 Will Eisner Graphic Novel Grants for Libraries Innovation Grant for her project, “Humanizing Health Sciences Education with Graphic Medicine.” She accepted the award during the annual American Library Association Annual Conference in June
