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Monthly Archives March 2009

Michael Gorman's Eight Core Library Values

I was thinking about this today – Gorman's list is one of the first things you should acquaint yourself with in Library School 101 to learn the framework for everything that will inform your role as a professional librarian.  But I was also thinking about the fact that a lot of people who work in […]

Posted 06 March 2009 § Library § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Going to the Candidate's Debate…

There was a forum for the candidates for the NDP leadership tonight at a local restaurant so I headed over to check it out.  Here are some random impressions…– I arrived early and bumped into a young woman who looked really familiar but who I couldn't place.  She did the “you look familiar…” routine with […]

Posted 05 March 2009 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

A Couple Last FTRW Links

My classmate, Lauralee, who has a history of drawing great stick figure art recently outdid herself with the FTRW poster she made for her library.  Very cool!  (I'm embarrassed to say I just realised that I don't even know if RPL had any FTRW events.  I did suggest it to a person who works in […]

Posted 04 March 2009 § Censorship § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – "How I wish that there were more/Than twenty-four hours in the day/Cause even if there were forty more/I wouldn't sleep a minute anyway" – March 2, 2009

So, on somewhat short notice, Shea and I have decided to head for Sin City (except that we'll have Pace in tow so “sin” will be restricted to too much sugar and staying up later than 8pm.)  How this came about is that my parents called last weekend that they'd won a free flight to […]

Posted 03 March 2009 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Travel § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

I'm Published…Sort of

I've mentioned one of the all-time most popular Ask Metafilter threads on this blog before – “What childhood experience most shaped who you are today?”  It's a a great one that I go back to with some regularity, and especially now that I have a child of my own.  A few months back, I was […]

Posted 02 March 2009 § Internet § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

FTRW 2009 – Internet Filtering in Ontario Lbraries?

I started the week talking about a discussion the librarians at RPL were having about the issue of patrons viewing pornography on the public access computers.  Although this is an important philosophical discussion, I'm happy to report that (at least as far as I know), patrons' viewing isn't being monitored or censored and no policy […]

Posted 01 March 2009 § Censorship § Internet § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: