I'm looking for fun slogans of the type a person might, for example, print out and post on the wall at their new library job. They don't necessarily have to be directly related to libraries or librarians but should capture the (to coin a phrase) “spirit of librarianship”.Here's a few I have so far…“Be The […]
It rarely happens but after a long day (went out on the longest van run we do which took me almost to the Manitoba border then back, starting at 6am and back at 3pm), I'm pretty beat and have nothing to talk about, no photos I feel like uploading, no sites I feel like linking […]
Learned how to deal with patron book requests yesterday and as part of that process, officially authorized my first ever book purchase which was Colony: The Harrowing Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman. One of my dream library jobs would be to do full-time adult non-fiction (ANF in the vernacular) acquisitions so […]
[2007-05-06 – MetaFilter had a great post with lots of interview related resources and discussion.] I said I wouldn't talk about my job much on this blog but I thought a bit about the various interviews I went through to get to this point in a more general manner might be a good topic, especially […]
I came across the home page of a computer science professor who's given up on e-mail while searching for information on Facebook. (It's not that he's switched completely to Facebook as you might think though – he's actually become 99% snail mail and 1% fax from the sound of things. He doesn't use e-mail or […]
A fitting list for Friday the 13th – “13 Lucky Tips For Activists“. What’s #1? “Have a sense of humour.”
Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get […]
Apparently having a full-time job in a city an hour away from where you normally live is not conducive to keeping up with e-mail, Facebook, blog posts, personal diary entries, baby diary entries, regular web surfing activities as well as all those other things that make up this thing we call life. For instance, last […]
Today was my first “hump day” in a long time so I'm really sorry to do this to you but…Our catalouging prof, the newly minted Dr. E. Davies, demostrated the principles of textual analysis using this song. Meanwhile, a teacher I know wouldn't allow it to be played at a high school dance. Such is […]
I used the following list when I did up a “mini-yearbook” for our 10 year high school reunion and came across it recently in a new Facebook group dedicated to the topic. So I thought I'd re-post it here. You Know You're From A Small Town When… 1. You can name everyone you graduated with. […]
