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UWO MLIS Program “Spirit of Librarianship” Award Winners

One of the pages I lost when my old blog disappeared was a page I created back in 2006 which had some of the background and criteria as well as winners, nominees, bios and even some photos for UWO’s “Spirit of Librarianship” Award in the MLIS program. I still have the page where all this [...]

Posted 06 May 2012 § Library § MemoryLane ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Le Blog C’est Mort

My old blog, which I started while I was library school sometime in mid-2006 and ran up until about a year ago at blog.headtale.com is no more. Apparently the company that owned the Blogware software sent out an e-mail via all their resellers about a year ago saying they were ending their support for the [...]

Posted 19 April 2012 § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Hunger Games Survival Analysis

I’m not much of a math nerd.  And I admit that stats in library school gave me cold sweats.  But this Hunger Games Survival Analysis is pretty cool. (via MetaFilter)

Posted 13 April 2012 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

FTRW 2012 – Censoring Your Democratic Right to Vote

Censorship doesn’t just happen with books and videos, it happens in a variety of ways when people in positions of power and authority attempt to control, influence and manipulate your behaviour. Perhaps the most insidious way that they do this is when powerful people attempt to eliminate our fundamental democratic rights.  Right now, a major [...]

Posted 28 February 2012 § Library § Politics § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

It’s The First Snow of the Year

An annual tradition on this blog is the posting of this Hawksley Workman song which perfectly captures the joy that comes with the first snowfall of the year.  I also realised this also makes an informal weather history… 2012- October 10 2011 – November 6 2010 – October 26 2009 – October 8 2008 – [...]

Posted 06 November 2011 § MemoryLane § Video ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Wisdom Wednesday – Is YouTube Killing Television?

And the answer (at least according to this infographic) is yes. Bonus: here’s a wise prognosticator on the same subject back in 2006… (Okay, it’s me but I’m pretty proud of this one – not just that it was my highest mark of library school but also because I really kicked ass on my presentation [...]

Posted 02 November 2011 § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Thanksgiving Genealogy

My mom’s taking a genealogy class so we spent quite a bit of time this weekend looking through her class notes, different web sites and reviewing the information she’d already gathered about her family. I’d taken a genealogy class in library school and had done quite a bit of research as well but mostly on [...]

Posted 09 October 2011 § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Friday Fun Link – Minus.com

Quinn Dupont was one my classmates in library school who was a constant source of what was the latest and greatest in the technology world. That continues to this day.  He recently posted Minus.com on his Facebook feed – a new site to simplify sharing of files that allows a huge amount of storage and [...]

Posted 02 September 2011 § Family § FridayFunLink § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Speakers I’ve Seen

I recently did a post about bands I’ve seen so I thought this might be the work-equivalent of that list from my personal life. I’m focusing on speakers I saw as stand-alones or as keynotes at conferences, not every single person I’ve ever seen do a session which would be a very very long list. [...]

Posted 02 June 2011 § MemoryLane § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

Random Thoughts From WILU Day One

I’m at the Workshop for Instruction in Library Use (WILU) conference in Regina from today until Friday. Here are a few random thoughts from my first day… – it’s always enjoyable to attend a conference in a different city – staying in a hotel, eating meals in cool restaurants, checking out the attractions of a [...]

Posted 01 June 2011 § Library § MemoryLane § Technology § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,