Was nice to see this pop up in one of my social media feeds today – one of my favourite classmates in library school (and a real life rock star librarian!) doing a digital program (and I’ll likely do a longer post at some point about the library’s role and response in the COVID era […]
Sorry for the late notice but tonight at 9:30pm, classmate Linda Bussiere will be playing at the Grad Club with her band, Buttonfly. There's no cover and it's a great chance to see an excellent local band, have a visit with fellow MLIS Students and perhaps quaff a beverage or three. Hope to see many […]
As September comes to a close, it’s a good time to point out that Wikipedia has an option to view the Top 100 viewed pages of every month. In September 2006, sex-related pages (List of Sexual Positions, Sex, Pornography) compete with popular media stories (Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, Dawson College Shootings) and more general topics […]
A nice innovation for the process this term is that the SoL sub-committee asked all nominators to give a brief blurb about their nominee. Looks like Student Council also had their first-ever joint nomination (although the form that came out looks like they only want us to vote for one of the three people who […]
[2007-05-06 – Wanted to add an update to mention that the paper I link to in the second paragraph of this post (not counting this added part in italics of course) won first runner-up in the 2007 CLA Student Writing contest. The posted version of the paper is the one I handed in for class […]
I'm creating a playlist of songs that have some connection to SW Ontario, preferably by specific name checks of locations in the title of the song but also by subject matter, artist residency or other similar factors. Here's what I've got so far…“Linda, Put the Coffee On” – Ray Materick “Tillsonburg” – Stompin' Tom Connors“Wreck […]
This Friday, our Children's Literature class is going on a field trip to Toronto. First, we're going to visit The Osborne Collection which is a public collection of rare children's books and which includes two other collections – the Lillian H. Smith Collection and the Canadiana Collection. The site features info about their current exhibit […]
My Five Favourite Nationalistic Holidays 1. Robbie Burns Day 2. St. Patrick's Day 3. Cinco De Mayo 4. St. George's Day (tied with Guy Fawkes Day) 5. Not really an “ethnic” holiday but I always thought the February “Family Day” in Alberta was a good idea. Canada needs a couple more national statutory holidays to […]
…and then I'll shut up about it. In a blog post after I won, I said I'd put a “what I really wanted to say” acceptance speech online (as opposed to what I did say having not really prepared a speech and being half-drunk and trying to talk while standing on a chair in a […]
Some random thoughts… Things I Want To Set-up/Figure Out In This Blog: – it already appears to have most of the things I wanted my blog to have by default – comments, tags, RSS feed, so I just have to play around with each of these things a bit to make sure I like how […]
