Year: 2008

One Year Anniversary = Nap

Yesterday was my one year anniversary with Southeast Regional.  I was going to a post to celebrate the fact…but then I just went to bed early.  The last

Five Things The Internet Is Killing (and One It Isn't)

[Edit: Here's a post I did on an Ask MetaFilter thread on the same subject.] Talking about some of the most useful sites online during the past three

Pace's First Phone Call

Pace was babbling up a storm the other day while grandma was watching him.  So she rather ingeniously decided to call our Regina number and leave a message

Friday Fun Link – 2008 LJ Movers and Shakers (March 28, 2008)

A recent post on Librarian.net reminded me that this year's list of Library's Journal's 2008 Movers & Shakers is now out.  Congrats to Amy Buckland for getting the

Read A Book For Your Health

The Globe and Mail recently had an article on the benefits of reading and good literacy to your health (PDF).  This is probably not a huge surprise but

The Reason I'm A Librarian?

Each year, our library system gives out four awards to our branches – one for Service, one for Programming, one for Branch Development and one for Branch of

LibraryThing Local

LibraryThing is already a wicked cool service but it's getting better all the time.  One of their latest features is LibraryThing Local which is “a new [LibraryThing] sub-site

"Waffle House" – Bill Hicks

That MetaFilter (which I inevitably type as “MetaFitler” everytime I type it) thread on libraries led to this piece of Bill Hicks gold.  I also found a blog

Blog Survey Results

I recently posted the second annual “Head Tale Blog Survey” to find out a bit about the visitors to this site – how they get here, what they

"A cafe has taken the place of part of the fiction section and a computer learning zone has replaced the periodicals room"

MetaFilter has a good discussion on the death of libraries, this time about a library in the UK.  “Hendon's library's opening hours have been cut, a cafe has

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