Continuing yesterday's trend of posting items long after their “best before” date, here's a press release from the Canadian Library Association summarizing their second annual survey of challenges to materials in Canadian libraries.Oliver Twist, The Golden Compass and Rolling Stone magazine were among the library materials challenged by Canadian library users in 2007, according to […]
If you're an MLIS student or recent grad, I encourage you to enter this contest. (I can't tell you how much fame and fortune I've gained by being a runner-up last year! That does remind me – I better spend my CLA gift certificate for free swag before it expires!)— Dear Students: CLA is […]
Here's an announcement that went out today about a project I've been volunteering on for the last six months or so. There's always going to be small things you'd change but overall, the new site is a big improvement on what the CLA had before and I'm proud to have been a part of this […]
Received this link from Chris G. with a request for any thoughts I might have on what makes a bestselling book. Coincidentally, this weekend I also happened to read a column by Stephen King in an issue of Entertainment Weekly exploring the same issue. And it also makes a nice follow-up to my last FFL […]
With the CLA conference coming up (already on? What day is it again???), the New Librarians Interest Group is doing a survey of students and recent grads to explore why (or why not) they attend the annual conference. I think this one is well-worth filling out as this is a pretty important topic and depending […]
(Ottawa, April 24, 2007) – The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce Melissa Poremba as winner of the Canadian Library Association’s 24th Student Article Contest for “Resources You can Count on @ Your Library”. Melissa is a distance education student in the Library and Information Technician Program at Mohawk College. The idea for […]
Apparently having a full-time job in a city an hour away from where you normally live is not conducive to keeping up with e-mail, Facebook, blog posts, personal diary entries, baby diary entries, regular web surfing activities as well as all those other things that make up this thing we call life. For instance, last […]
Just reading the CLA Bulletin and it sounds like they'll post speaker's presentations as they receive them (although that's currently a non-existent link so who knows?) But anyhow, if something shows up there, one of my complaints will have been unfounded (though I'd still love to see full video streams of all the sessions – […]
These are my notes from probably the best session I attended at CLA (okay, it tied with Michael Geist's session on copyright but those were two totally different things. Or were they?) To put it in perspective, I wrote maybe a page in my notebook at most sessions I attended. I took six pages at […]
[2008-03-21 – Holly is a classmate who I think posted her impressions on our class's private Yahoo! group and who gave me permission to reprint them here.] The good:Sessions – “Is one stop shopping all we dreamed it would be? The Single search interface in action”This was great, it was a LAC librarian and two […]
