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A onetime child prodigy, at 39 Joshua Bell has arrived as an internationally acclaimed virtuoso. Three days before he appeared at the Metro station, Bell had filled the house at Boston's stately Symphony Hall, where merely pretty good seats went for $100. Two weeks later, at the Music Center at Strathmore, in North Bethesda, he […]
The book publishing industry recorded total revenues of just over $2.4 billion in 2005, up only 1.6% from 2004. This was in sharp contrast to the 19% growth rate that occurred from 2000 to 2004. Despite the lackluster performance nationally, total revenue gains were strong in the West with British Columbia (+19.9%), Saskatchewan (+9.1%) and Alberta (+8.7%) outpacing the national average. In contrast, publishers […]
I've had this happen a couple times in the past few weeks so thought I'd mention it. If you add someone on Facebook who has the “Auto Reply” function on their e-mail program enabled, the “Jason Hammond has added you” message gets sent back and flows right through Facebook to your e-mail in-box thus revealing […]
I've addressed this before but my readership has grown quite a bit since the last time I talked about it so I'll give some background on the FFL's again. My “Friday Fun Links” started as a way to provide regular content when I set up a listserv for the Writers Guild of Alberta. When I […]
Well, my first week of work is over (nice to start on a week with a stat holiday!) and as I dig into my bag of bookmarks for something relevant to post on a day where I'm burned out after a day that started early, included a lot of miles on the road, finished with […]
I've always been somebody who enjoyed checking out the libraries in towns and cities I've visited across Canada and around the world. Whether it's a public, academic or other type of library, it's always interesting to see the different designs, layouts and atmospheres they each manage to create. The idea of library tourism was on […]
I can't believe it's been a year since I won the Spirit of Librarianship Award! And now with the self-serving comment out of the way, let's get to the people who really deserve the attention… (I'll update the SoL page when the winner is announced. If anybody has a digital camera, can you take pictures […]
Is there any job you start where you don't get overwhelmed with information the first day? When I started working at a gas station at 14 or 15, they handed me a list of 100 SKU codes for every product we sold and told me to have it memorized by the weekend. I also had […]
I don't hate the shootout as much as some people do. I actually have a much bigger problem with a scoring system that allows for some games to be worth 3 points and others 2 (if I was in charge, a win is 2 points, a loss is 0 points no matter when it happens, […]
