Basement knee hockey rink:
I’m pretty excited about our staff conference on Friday (although the last minute details and fire fighting gave me a bastard of a headache today so that I ended up coming home and crashing for two hours.) But I think we’ve got a great line-up – including having not one but two sessions by the […]
Funny enough, it was a thread on the off-topic forum of a site dedicated to the Calgary Flames where I first heard about the current mayoralty race in Calgary. The current mayor wasn’t running again so a wide field had come forward (something like 15 in total? Why can’t Regina have that?) with the main […]
This clip went viral over the weekend so you may have seen it by now. It’s by a band from New York called Atomic Tom who decided to do a performance of their latest single on a New York subway train using only the music apps on their iPhones – one for a microphone, one […]
Sure, when you get your MLIS degree, you learn some skills that are supposedly important – how to catalogue, how to answer a reference question, that Meville Dewey preferred to spell his name “Dui”. But there are some other skills and abilities that you don’t necessarily learn in library school that are possibly even more […]
One of the great advantages of being in a province-wide system now is that there is a much greater chance that a patron can find a book they’re looking for, even if it’s a bit more obscure or was published a long time ago. I recently had this experience myself when I was looking through […]
Last year, folks online showed the growing power of social media by making a fifteen year old, anti-authority Rage Against the Machine song the UK #1 Christmas Number One. This year, another Internet-based group, Cage Against the Machine, has sprung up with an even better idea for what famous song should be propelled to this […]
Last Saturday night, I turned on my laptop and heard a very weird click-click-click noise. “Oh, oh – that doesn’t sound good.” Everything appeared on my desktop as normal but as soon as I tried to move my mouse, I saw the Mac’s spinning colour wheel appear, meaning the computer was labouring. But unlike other […]
Watching the rescue of the trapped miners in Chile over the past 24 hours, I thought it might be interesting to try to rank the most engrossing TV moments of my life. I’m obviously thinking of news events so “Canada wins Gold in hockey” and “First Survivor Finale” don’t make the cut. The rescue of […]
RPL hosted a workshop with well-known library consultant, Rachel Van Riel of OpeningTheBook.com today, the only Saskatchewan stop on a cross-Canada tour that will also take her to Alberta and Ontario. The information presented was excellent and I’d highly recommend her to anyone looking for ideas on how to improve their libraries. As always, a […]
