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Category Archives: Library

The Business Case for Happiness in the Workplace

I’ve long been a believer that a happy workplace is a productive, engaged workplace. Now, it looks like Canadian business schools are starting to agree. From the Globe & Mail (with my own bolding of parts I found particularly relevant)… The business case for happiness in the workplace DELLA BRADSHAW Published Wednesday, May. 22, 2013 07:00PM [...]

Posted 23 May 2013 § Jobs § LibrarySchool § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Two Tales of Crime & Punishment: Guess Who Comes Out Looking Better – The Cops or the Librarians? (Okay, It’s the Feds Who Look Bad…As Usual)

The police often get the short end of the stick in terms of public perception but stories like this one show there are definitely good cops out there. In my line of work, it’s not often that you can arrest somebody on multiple occasions and end up being friends with them. On the flip side [...]

Posted 02 May 2013 § Canada § Censorship § Jobs § Sappy § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Saturday Snap – Mom’s Lifetime Membership in SUN (and some thoughts on where she’s influenced me – it might not be where you’d expect!)

One benefit of being home with the baby for a couple weeks was that Shea, Sasha and I were able to slip out one afternoon earlier this week for one of Sasha’s first-ever outings. We snuck into the SUN AGM & Conference to see my mom receive a Lifetime Membership from the organization (she’d also [...]

Posted 27 April 2013 § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

HubSpot’s Culture Code

It’s no secret that I am fascinated by the different approaches that so many tech companies take towards organizational culture compared to more traditional companies. Here’s another example – a presentation outlining tech marketing company, HubSpot’s cultural code.  (I especially love their three-word policy that guides pretty much everything they do: “Use Good Judgement”.  Also [...]

Posted 02 April 2013 § List § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Friday Fun Link – “Welcome to Literarily Drunk. I’m drunk. And I like books!”

A new vlogger combines a couple of my favourite things – books and booze – in her Literarily Drunk reviews.

Posted 22 March 2013 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Where Are All The Jobs? Librarians Needed!

Although it can seem dire sometimes, according to this graphic from MacLean’s (via Ken Haycock’s shiny new Facebook page), librarians will be one of the highest demand professions over the next decade. (I’m going to ignore that the actual wording doesn’t specify “librarians” and actually says “Technical Jobs in Libraries…” which could mean a lot [...]

Posted 20 March 2013 § Jobs § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

How To Give A Dumb Farm Boy Librarian A Swelled Head

I attended the 2013 Stapleford Lecture at the U of R last night which featured Dr. Toni Samek from the U of A’s Library School. Her topic was: “Librarians Unplugged: How and Why Librarians Are Speaking Out About Crucial Social Issues”. My first swelled head moment came when I got the invitation to attend the [...]

Posted 19 March 2013 § LibrarySchool ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – 16 Great Library Scenes in Film

I finally realized why I like “The Breakfast Club” so much – the whole movie is set in a library!

Posted 22 February 2013 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Manitoba Children’s Museum

During our trip to Winnipeg last weekend, we visited the Manitoba Children’s Museum.  One of the highlights for me was seeing that every single exhibit area had picture books scattered around that tied into the theme of that exhibit – the train that you could climb on had transportation books, the exhibit that let you [...]

Posted 02 February 2013 § Canada § Family § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Top 10 Things I Use As A Bookmark

A discussion on Reddit about who uses dust jacket flaps as bookmarks leads to all kinds of other related anecdotes… English Prof here: Want a great way to boost reading comprehension? Don’t use bookmarks! It’s weird and counter-intuitive, but what this does is force you to go back and quickly skim over what you read [...]

Posted 17 January 2013 § List § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,