The Summer 2006 Spirit of Librarianship winner was announced at the Destressor on Wednesday afternoon. Bruce Fyfe came out on top in a very close race. It was a great event with a number of nice touches – they gathered all the nominees on the stage to be acknowledged before making the announcement, all nominees […]
Christina and I are planning to have a pool party on Friday afternoon to celebrate the end of the semester and one of the last chances for many of us to spend time together before some of us go off to co-op placements or off to the real world. We're planning to start at 2pm […]
When I first considered doing an independent study, I remember talking to Lynne and her recommending that I look through some of the past studies that were archived at the GRC. I went and paged through them and have to admit, I checked specifically to see which was the shortest one. “Okay,” I thought. “If […]
After going to class today on three hours of sleep, I thought it might be interesting to break down what a typical day is like for me. Of course, no day is “typical” and how my time breaks down will likely be quite different when compared to any other student as well. 3 hours – […]
This book showed up in my mailbox at school the other day courtesy “The Book Fairy”. Can you imagine why a library in our nation's capital would ever get rid of such a treasure? Me either. It's a limited edition too – this copy is #260 of 1000. Lots of interesting trivia, colour photos and […]
I'd never seen this before. Got an automated e-mail from Amazon a couple days ago. Interesting idea and I thought they were making a recommendation based on some things Shea had looked at previously. But it turns out they're claiming to recommend a fairly expensive nursing textbook based on the fact that I looked at […]
Why do my random thoughts posts always seem to fall around the time of a long weekend? Strange…Relationship TheoryI've been thinking about something quite a bit since July. I read a lot of relationship books and watch a lot of Oprah so I'm very aware of the theory that says anyone in a relationship can […]
A writer in the UK has released Abracadabra!, a free e-book about the Beatles’ “Revolver” album on the 40th anniversary of that LP being released. If you’re more interested in the public sharing of information than the Beatles, you might also want to check out “In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law” […]
I got a bit homesick when I saw an empty Boh bottle in the recycling room the other day. I thought someone else from Sask-a-bush was getting their favourite beer imported as I've always thought that “Boh” was a Saskatchewan-only beer. Probably for that reason, the majority of my friends made this our beer of […]
I presented my 697 Individual Study findings to the 501 class on Tuesday and it went pretty well. There were lots of questions and class interaction at the end which I always think is a good thing. Some of the non-501'ers who came out to support me (Sabina, Linda, Tami) said I did a good […]
