I know nobody will read this until my blog's bandwidth resets on August 1 but that's still enough warning if you're a Regina and area librarian about our next informal social gathering which will be held on Friday August 8 from 5-7pm at Beer Bros Bakery & Cuisine (1801 Scarth St). We'll be in the […]
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Wikipedia is failing an essay on Wikipedia that's on Wikipedia.
From the “no duh!” files, the Library of Congress has come out officially as saying that Digital Rights Management is a serious obstacle to archiving materials.But copyright law also hampers important work being done at places like the Library of Congress, and a major new report on the issue from the Library points out the […]
…you volunteered to write a government brief about the value of libraries in your province. What would you include? What approach would you take? In this hypothetical example, let's say the sucker volunteer already has a draft with some statistics and facts relevant to libraries, both in general (the one from the 2004 Florida study […]
I've previously written about the 2.0-esque campaign that Barack Obama has run this year – embracing cutting-edge technology, bottom-up organizing, social networking, the wisdom of crowds and all that good stuff.Here is a smaller scale example – a young IT professional in Kansas, partly inspired by Barack Obama, decides to run for State Legislature. He […]
In the midst of a massive weeding project at work and I've come to a realization – you can have all the rules, guidelines and criteria you want. You can base your decisions on number of circulations in a given time frame, most recent circulation date, condition of the book, number of other copies in […]
Last December, I wrote about the announcement of Google Knol, a similar service to Wikipedia but with moderation of articles and the ubiquitous Google Ads. The site has officially launched and with a few hundred articles to Wikipedia's 2.5 million, Jimmy Wales has nothing to fear…yet. In other Google news, they're in serious talks to […]
This is a shot of Pace up to no good at the Weyburn Public Library after watching Weldon the Wacky Wizard, our summer reading tour performer.I have no idea how Shea (dark brown hair) and myself (medium brown hair) managed to have a kid with such blond hair. (Of course he was conceived somewhere around […]
I first became aware of the best-in-the-world ranking of Finnish schools in the excellent book, “Under Pressure: Rescuing Childhood from the Culture of Hyper Parenting” by Carl Honore. (This is probably one of the best books I've read so far this year and would highly recommend it, whether you are a parent or not. A […]
