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The Importance of Being Able to Say “I Don’t Know”

Perhaps like no other profession on earth, librarians are dedicated to providing others with factual, accurate information across an incredibly broad range of subjects (if you’re a Dewey fan, you might think of it as us covering from 000 to 999 – basically the full range of human knowledge!) So one of the toughest things […]

¶ Posted 19 April 2020 § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, history, science

Fun With Opposites – Linda from London Public Library

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 […]

¶ Posted 15 April 2020 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Randomness § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language, music, ontario, youtube

Friday Fun Link – Some Useful COVID-19 Resources & Trackers

These are ordered roughly in the order that I find them useful but I’d encourage anyone reading this to open them all and find which ones you prefer for yourself. Also, feel free to post a comment if there are sites I haven’t listed that you prefer. COVID-19 Canada Tracker – designed by a […]

¶ Posted 27 March 2020 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Infographic § List § News § Technology § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, education, health, unitedstates

Saturday Snap – Going (Mini) Viral Online in the Age of Pandemic

From working on the Ryan Meili leadership campaigns, mostly in the area of social media plus my own personal interest in the topic, I know some of the “rules” about what makes tweets/Facebook posts successful. But ultimately, human nature is a funny thing and no one can truly predict what will make a tweet go […]

¶ Posted 21 March 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Library § News § SaturdaySnap § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, education, twitter

Why Does The “Bernie Bro” Myth Persist?

Because the media isn’t doing their job?

¶ Posted 11 February 2020 § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: twitter

Sorry, @officialRPL, I have a new favourite “RPL”

Radiohead has launched the Radiohead Public Library – a massive online archive of streaming albums, music & concert videos, rarities, merchandise and much more. Here’s a list of ten things that are getting fans very excited about this new site. And just for the heck of it, something not on the RPL site but instead, […]

¶ Posted 21 January 2020 § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, history, music

Friday Fun Link – How Black Friday Shopping Habits Are Changing

I admit that between things we need for our new house and the usual Christmas pressure to “buy, buy, buy!”, I had a fairly loaded Amazon cart on the go. But I read this article and just couldn’t do it – I mean, I know most corporations treat workers poorly and do anything in pursuit […]

¶ Posted 29 November 2019 § FridayFunLink § News § Video § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, holiday, xmas

This thread about working in a library went viral because it’s funny, passionate, angry and utterly lovely

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/05/16/working-library-thread-viral-passionate-angry-funny-and-lovely/2/

¶ Posted 19 November 2019 § Humour § Jobs § Library § List § Meme § MemoryLane § UK § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, twitter

Friday Fun Link – ASMR: The Biggest YouTube Trend You’ve Never Heard Of

I hadn’t heard of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) until seeing it referred to on Twitter earlier this week in a joke about how addictive it is. Turns out ASMR is huge!