Derik A Badman is the Digital Services Librarian at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. He is a member of the group blog In the Library With the Lead Pipe. Derik has recently presented on such topics as personal information management, Blackboard/library integration, "subject guides 2.0", and journal alert services. He is an ALA Emerging Leader for 2008 who has been working in libraries non-stop since he was 16. Besides his library work, he creates his own webcomic (Things Change: The Metamorphoses Comic) and writes comics criticism at madinkbeard.com. He can be reached at dbadman@temple.edu