I posted a fitting John Lennon Christmas song over at LibrarianActivist for this week's Friday Fun Link but I think for the first time ever, I'm not going to post the exact same link on this blog. This is the video for a song that I think isn't very well known in North America (correct […]
Here's a big surprise – I love lists! And the end of the year, is the absolute best time for them. A web site called Fimoculous has compiled links to various online lists of best movies, music, books and various other categories for the past few years. Here's a direct link to the Books section […]
A former classmate sent me the following: “I know that education issues are sort of behind you now, but I came across an interesting article on “What`s wrong with the standard undergraduate computer science curriculum”. On the one hand, it appears that FIMS is doing quite a few things right (lots of presentations and group-work, […]
Someone wrote to advise that Daily Dilbert is a great way to pass the time when you're unemployed. Sometimes I find the humour a bit subtle (as in today's strip – see below) but it's always quality stuff unlike some of the other crap that's out there in the many funny pages on the Intraweb. […]
We Made It!Well, we made it. Our last couple days in London were pretty hectic with packing and last minute stuff but, like anything, it got done. Dumpster Diving ReduxAt the start of the year, I couldn't believe how many people threw out perfectly good stuff but by the time we left, I understood why. […]
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” – Jean Anouilh, Ardele“We can and do spend too much time worrying whether librarianship is a craft or an art, a job or a profession, irrespective of whether it is one or the other, all or none, librarianship has three major values: service, intellectual freedom, and preservation […]
LISNews.org names The Top Ten LIS Stories of 2006 (via Stephen’s Lighthouse) The list is a bit tech-heavy and a bit US-centric but otherwise, provides a good overview of the year in libraryland. (That's kind of a goofy phrase but since a prof used it recently, I've started using it too!)I didn't do this when […]
A final circle closes – my last chat for Advocacy class tonight was with former Saskatchewan Provincial Librarian (and current Director of the Coquitlam Public Library), Maureen Woods. Great teleconference which finished with a very revealing “round table” as everybody talked about what they'd taken from the class. And that's it. No more assignments. No […]
I'm on a roll with the mega-long FIMS-related posts this week so here's another one…a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the MLIS program.
