Had our first 506 – Management course this morning and it was actually pretty good. I had this fear that some Ivey-esque (that's the name of the business school here – some rich dude “bought” the naming right on it. I wonder who'd buy the naming rights to FIMS? The JK Rowling School of Library […]
A big group of us went out to Call The Office for Retro Night last night and had a blast. There was no flashing as alluded to the in the title of this post but breasts did play a role in the evening – first, in the discussion that happened at Holly's before the party […]
Most weeks, we have a certain activity in our 525 – Managing Internet Information class to learn about or do and then we're supposed to report on it. This week's activity was to join the class Yahoo! Ggroup and then send a message with something useful or funny in it. I did as instructed and […]
Concerts Are FunWent a bit crazy last night and bought tickets to both Bright Eyes (June) and Wilco (July), both at the Centennial Hall in London. Two of my favourite bands within a month – why not? Music Is PoliticalOne of (maybe the only) good thing about George Bush being in power in the US […]
Christina and Jonathan came over a couple weeks ago for drinks and one of the topics of conversation was some of the differences we've encountered between Ontario and Saskatchewan. Since it's the May long weekend and that's one of the things that came up, I thought this would be a good time to list a […]
When I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta, I posted a weekly link to a fun/informative/weird web site that was somehow connected to writers or books. (Based on that link, apparently they still think I work there!) Anyhow, I’ve been looking for a place to resurrect the FFL and my co-conspirators at Library Activist […]
…people use it. It seems like common sense but sometimes organizations focus so much on controlling how the listserv is used that they neglect to encourage people to actually use it. By the way, the CLA conference is coming up next month in Ottawa and a bunch of people at school are planning to attend. […]
…I am now one of the three people involved in running LibrarianActivist.org, a great web site that I occasionally visited even before coming to library school and which provided all kinds of useful information for assignments last semester. My first boss in the non-profit world warned me that “the biggest problem with this type of […]
I got a lengthy response to my “5 Ways To Improve Library School” post from Michael Thibault, the new Academic Rep for the MLIS Student Council (although he makes clear that he's only representing his own opinion.) I'd encourage anybody interested in issues around library school to read his comments and my response. Also, feel […]
I multiplied the number of books I've read this year by a factor of about seven today. Of course, I did this by reading the twenty-four or so pictures books that we have to have read for our Kid's Lit course this week in one marathon (such as it was) sitting. I was a bit […]
