Daily Archives Saturday, November 2006

What's In A Name?

Here at library school, we talk a lot about what we call things.  Patrons or customers or clients or users (or even neighbours as one classmate suggested.)  You also have libraries or resource centres or information centres or Idea Stores.The trend seems to be towards taking the traditional terms – “library” and “patron” – out of […]

Vote on Monday

I don't know about you but when I come to the end of something – a job, schooling, a vacation or whatever – I start noticing how things tend to come full circle.  Another example of this I noticed recently is that the year started with a federal election at the end of January that […]