Daily Archives Sunday, October 2006

Babies and Libraries: Serving The Youngest Patrons of the Community

The new online library student journal  (creatively called “Library Student Journal”) has an article about how libraries currently serve babies. (Resists urge to make Jonathan Swift joke.)  I guess one way to solve the problem of “baby” entries versus “library” entries on this blog is to combine the two topics!And what's my record for blog […]

Town of Indian Head – Leader Post Advertising Feature

My hometown was featured in a special advertising supplement in the Regina Leader Post newspaper recently.  Check it out for a taste of life in a small prairie town. 

Back at the Ranch…

Vote Jim Holmes, executive member of the Friends of the RPL, for mayor of Regina.  A friend of mine in Regina has been doing a great job of tracking some of the improprieties of current mayor, Pat Fiasco Fiacco on the “Politics 'n' Poetry” blog (and yes, those two things do go together and should […]

Blogosphere Thoughts, Fun With Referrer Stats

The vast majority of people I talk to who have recently started blogs all seem to say the same thing: “I don't really like blogs but I decided to give it a shot.”  This instinctive reaction against blogs is interesting – why is there a natural resistance to blogs?  (Going way back to entry one […]

Slogans For Library School

This is a list of potential slogans to put on our class t-shirts last semester – provided by classmates, other students, faculty, staff, alumni, library joke sites and more.  Some are pretty obvious, some are in-jokes that only our class would get.  I've put the winning choice in bold and her personal favourite in italic. […]