This Friday, our Children's Literature class is going on a field trip to Toronto. First, we're going to visit The Osborne Collection which is a public collection of rare children's books and which includes two other collections – the Lillian H. Smith Collection and the Canadiana Collection. The site features info about their current exhibit […]
Our second management class today made me remember another quirky fact about myself – I have never had a male boss in my life. Even when I worked at a gas station in high school, the owner/manager of the station was a woman. When I worked for a cable TV company in summers during college, […]
Went over to David & Sabina's on Saturday for a wicked supper. Shea took one of her specialties, I took some Bushwakker beer I'd been saving since mom and dad were here. Here's the recipe for Shea's (I don't have the recipe for the beer but wish I did!) Spicy Potatoes4 cups of small baby […]
One of my classmates in 525 – Managing Internet Information observed on the blog he had to set-up for a class assignment that his “initial impression of Blogging was that most contributors suffer from Blogorrhea. That is, an inability to control the output.” I admit that I suffer from a case of that disease. But […]
The Acting Associate Dean, Lynne McKechnie, sat down with members of the Student Council and a few interested students last Wednesday to discuss any and all issues with the program. It was a very good discussion and a lot of material was covered in the hour and a bit that the meeting lasted. As well, […]
I'm re-posting this notice as I know all of us get a lot of e-mail and sometimes gloss over them or ignore them completely. So I'm hoping that seeing it here might catch somebody's attention a bit more than it might otherwise by just arriving in their in-box. The work that the Peer Mentorship Committee […]
Ten Books To Feed The Imagination – includes the usual suspects such as Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling but a couple surprises as well. (via The Guardian) Classmate of the Day: I reminded Holly that she had a “birthday” today when a group of us sent for supper this evening which ended up getting us […]
This catalogue of books that have been nominated or won Saskatchewan Book Awards was one of the last projects I worked on before I came to library school. It was a Centennial project with a committee comprised of reps from the Sask Book Awards, Sask Writers Guild, Sask Library Association, Sask Publishers Group and Sask […]
It could be worse… A person could be trying to figure out what Ontario people were saying and doing after moving here from South Africa. (Via a message posted on our 525 class listserv.)
I honestly don't know what a Calgary Flames fan should do with the Edmonton Oilers one game away from the Stanley Cup Finals in a run that's reminiscient of Calgary's similar run two years ago, the last time NHL hockey was played. Most of the posters over at the CalgaryPuck message board are adamant that […]
