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Saturday Snap – A Cart (A Range? A Collection? A Bay?) of Librarians at CLA 2010

My “Misadventures at CLA 2010” series sort of died out after a couple days, somewhat ironically because I was out having mis-adventures that left me less time for actually summarizing what I was up to.  (And let's be honest – the first two I wrote were pretty “I did this then I did this” boring […]

Posted 06 June 2010 § Canada § Library § Main Page § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

My Answers to the CLA Mini-Survey

As part of their preparations for the AGM, CLA has been distributing a two-question mini-survey to members soliciting feedback about how CLA is perceived and how it can better accomplish its mandate.  Here are my answers:1. Why does CLA matter?To me, CLA matters because it is (and/or should be) the only national voice for all […]

Posted 05 June 2010 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Cash Cow: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries (June 4, 2010)

Posting this as a Friday Fun Link sorta feels like being the party guest who comes over and starts criticizing your housekeeping or your parenting skills or whatever.  But anyhow, here I am in Edmonton, enjoying the CLA conference and I can't help but re-post my essay, “Cash Cow: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries“.  […]

Posted 05 June 2010 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Misadventures at CLA 2010 – Day Two

It was a long day today, what with an early start for the First-Timer's breakfast (which I like to attend even though I am slowly realising I can no longer claim “baby librarian” status and might have to shift to being a self-described “toddler librarian” ) and also because I had that second scotch late […]

Posted 04 June 2010 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Misadventures at CLA 2010 – Day One

I did daily posts from CLA in 2006 when I ferried a van load of UWO students for that conference in Ottawa from London.  Last year in Montreal, I was too busy being a Ryan Meili fan boy to do CLA-related posts but I'm back with a vengeance this year.  So let's recap the day […]

Posted 03 June 2010 § Library § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Ten Ways To Fix CLA

For anyone in the library community, you're probably aware that CLA is going through some tough times financially and is looking at remedies – which means this year's conference and AGM should be particularly interesting.I don't know the full background and history of how they've arrived at this point but having seen numerous other member-based […]

Posted 01 June 2010 § Library § List § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Music Monday – "There she goes again/Mixing melody with a memory/She's got a song for everything/Everywhere she's been, everyone she's pleased"

iTunes Canada has a free single of the week and this week happens to be local Regina indy buzz band, Library Voices, who are sort of a western Canadian version of Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene or dare I say it, Polyphonic Spree – any of those recent bands (“collectives” would probably be a better […]

Posted 01 June 2010 § Main Page § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video ‡ Comments (0) °