Derik A Badman is a brand new member of the development and support team at SpringShare, Inc (creators of LibGuides and LibAnswers). Until mid-March 2010 he was 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 virtual reference, personal information management, Blackboard/library integration, and "subject guides 2.0". Besides his library work, he creates his own webcomics and writes comics criticism at madinkbeard.com. (That's Mad Ink Beard.)