I'm teaching a session on Web 2.0 at one of our branches this afternoon then immediately heading out for Saskatoon for a SILS demo tomorrow and then the SLA conference until late Saturday afternoon. Shea and Pace are going to her folks until Sunday so I'm pretty sure this is the longest period I've been […]
So a few entries ago, I once again posted my predictions for the NHL playoffs. I didn't take the time to do any analysis or anything – just posted a list of my picks using a unique style of picking teams based on a descending scale of 1) do I like the team? 2) Is […]
Pace is gaining more words all the time so Shea and I have been working on his numbers and alphabet. So I thought it was pretty funny when I took him to the school ground near our house and let him climb on their play structure. It has one of those grids of plastic blocks […]
Accidental Jurist has an excellent analysis of the campaigns so far of each candidate in the provincial NDP leadership race – how they got into the race, what they've done so far, the strategies they'll need to be successful now that the membership deadline has passed and the campaign's entered its final phase. Lingenfelter – […]
I think I mentioned previously that I've been asked to represent public libraries on an Emerging Technologies Interest Group pre-conference panel. If you're a CLA member, you may have received a News Flash last week that this pre-conference session, along with a few others, were closed due to low registration numbers. Fear not – I've […]
Ask MetaFilter and MetaFilter are both good places to find threads about libraries since so many librarians hang out there. (I've linked to the pages for each site's entries that have been tagged with “library” but feel free to try variations such as “libraries”, “librarian”, “book”, etc.)Here are a couple recent AskMetaFilter threads that were […]
Shea and I managed to wrangle a babysitter (thanks dad!) so were both able to attend the final NDP leadership debate forum tonight.The Accidental Jurist and I ended up sitting next to each other and when I introduced Shea to him, I explained, “he's the guy who puts thought into his posts, fact-checks and keeps […]
The World Digital Library officially launched yesterday. Here's some more info from their About page:The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant […]
No major Meili news today in what has become an “all Meili, all the time” blog (!) so I thought I'd move down the road a bit… A young NDP candidate in BC (who also happens to be gay) withdrew from his nomination after a photo of him holding a female's breast from his Facebook […]
