The Scored's PrayerOur Kipper, who art in goal, hallowed be thy name. Thy Stanley come, thy will be done, in Playoffs as in regular season. Give us this day our daily win. And forgive us our trespasses, as we drop the gloves with those who trespass against us. And lead us not into losses, but […]
The NHL season started this week and the big news so far is that one of the billionaire co-founders of Research in Motion which makes the Blackberry and is based in Kitchener-Waterloo bought the Pittsburgh Penguins from $175 million dollars. I'd been following the story through the mainstream media but decided to check out TMLFans.com, […]
This video was created for library staff in service day at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana. Set to Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” and inspired by the video of the song, this video details a day in the life of a thriving public library system, highlighting the faces and places that […]
There's a tradition at small town weddings that, at the end of the night, a bunch of the young guys will buy a table full of $1 drinks just before the bar closes down to take advantage of the cheap alcohol. That was the thought in my head at the end of the SOGS Mixer […]
Here is a list of Firefox extensions I have installed on my computer: DOM Inspector – inspect web page information FoxyTunes – allows you to control multimedia functions within your browser GooglePreview – shows screenshots along with Google searches MetaFilthy – tracks which threads you've read on MetaFilter ColourfulTabs – makes tabs more readable SearchEngineOrdering […]
I hope the formatting for this comes out okay. I'm cutting and pasting from a Word doc. Thanks to Lynda Kirkham over at LPL for passing these along to me! London Public Library – Ontario Public Library Week – Libraries: The World at your Fingertips Date Event Details October 14 Computer vs. the Librarian 2:00-4:00 […]
Happy Canadian Library Month! From CLA:The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce that October has been designated as Canadian Library Month! The idea for a month dedicated to library and information services in Canada was developed by library partners from across the country to help raise public awareness of the valuable role that […]
So we were doing our tour of the LPL today and I was formulating an updated “Things I Like/Don't Like About LPL” post in my head all afternoon. But then Linda introduced me to the Coordinator of Children's and Youth Services so I could give my spiel about about Art Slade coming to FIMS on […]
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 […]
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.
