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Monthly Archives February 2010

FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – Ten Most Controversial Music Videos of All-Time

I know I could get my entire month's worth of Freedom to Read Week Month “Music Monday” clips out of this list but I'll post them as a group since that's how I found them. 

Posted 09 February 2010 § Censorship § List § Main Page § MusicMonday § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Saturday Snap – RPL Joins SILS (from local CTV station)

Used a poor man's hack (point iPhone at TV) to get a clip from our local TV news about RPL joining our new province-wide consortium onto YouTube.  Sorry for the crappy sound…

Posted 07 February 2010 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

FTRW 2010 – Friday Fun Link – List of Films That Most Frequently Use The Word "Fuck"

Looking for a good date movie?  I'm just kidding but this list of “Films That Most Frequently Use The Word 'Fuck'” does remind me of a funny anecdote from my youth.  A friend had introduced me to “Reservoir Dogs” soon after it came out on video and I quickly became a Tarantino junkie.  When I […]

Posted 06 February 2010 § Censorship § FridayFunLink § Main Page § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

FTRW 2010 – Nothing Warms The Heart Like The Call For A Good Book Burning

So many choice quotes in this article – unfortunately, you can't make this stuff up: “The row even spread to this year's Fourth of July parade, which included a float featuring a washing machine and a sign that read “keep our library clean.”“Outside West Bend, the fight caught the attention of Robert Braun, who, with […]

Posted 05 February 2010 § Censorship § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

FTRW 2010 – Expanded Version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" Pulled From Classrooms in Virginia School

I think it's fair to say that the majority of the battles around Freedom of Expression are taking place in schools these days.  “The Diary of Anne Frank” is one of my favourite books of all-time and a book I probably first read when I was 12 or 13.  So in a world where all […]

Posted 04 February 2010 § Censorship § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Regina Public Library Joins SILS

Today was the big day when RPL joined three other library systems within the province who had already gone live as part of a province-wide library system called the Saskatchewan Information and Library Services consortium (SILS).  By the end of the year, SILS will be comprised of a total of ten library systems covering the […]

Posted 03 February 2010 § Library § Main Page § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – "I guess there's gotta be a break in the monotony/But jesus when it rains, how it pours."

It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month.  Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject.  For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for […]

Posted 02 February 2010 § Censorship § Internet § Library § Main Page § MusicMonday § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

What Are The Top Academic Journals In Various Fields?

An AskMetaFilter thread which may be of particular use to those in academic libraries.  Nobody's posted the top Library Science journals and I can't remember the names of the ones that were supposed to be the tops in their field (though I do remember getting lectured by our 501 professor when he realised that most […]

Posted 01 February 2010 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °