Year: 2010

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

Saturday Snap – Religious Indoctrination of Children Happens Early These Days

For instance, Pace is already a believer in the Flying Spaghetti Monster at the tender age of two and a half.  Oh, the horror! 

Friday Fun Link – "Library" at WikiHow (January 30, 2010)

WikiHow is a site where anyone can add instructional guides on pretty much any topic you can think of.  There's lots of good information (in between the tons

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