I mentioned the idea of (re)starting an alumni association in the “50 Ways To Improve FIMS” post a couple days ago. Someone wrote to let me know there is a group that exists online via Western's Purple Cirlces community portal. The MLIS one is called (in very logical fashion) MLIS Alumni Network. I don't think […]
Is 92-year-old Donald Crowdis (former host of the Candadian TV program The Nature of Things) the world’s oldest blogger? Even if he isn’t his blog is terrific. He’s funny and astute. Here’s an excerpt from a recent entry he wrote on cannibalism: [T]he best food, or at least the best protein, is that which is […]
With apologies to Mike T. for stealing his t-shirt slogan for a mostly inaccurate blog post title, I just wanted to post a note that I have around 250 unattended messages in my in-box right now and will get to them, hopefully by the end of this week. I don't think there's anything life and […]
The Top 10 list is a ubiqutious part of our culture these days and using the power of folksonomy, you can easily find some interesting web sites. This is a list of sites that have been bookmarked using the tags “best”, “top10” and “toread” on Delicious, a social bookmarking web site. Fairly tech-heavy but there […]
Not very often but sometimes, I really don't like libraries.I was over at the University today for a group meeting and afterwards, went to the Business Library because the catalogue showed that they (as well as our main library Weldon, the Taylor library and a few others in the system had a copy of a […]
With apologies to Eminem, one of my favourite things, both at school or in the workplace, is when I lose myself in a project and all of a sudden, two or four or eight hours have passed. Last time I looked at the clock, it was 3am and I was thinking that I should probably […]
Having done a lot of web site design over the years, I thought of doing a list like this in first semester right before our 505 web site assignment was due. I never got around to it. But now, having spent quite a bit of time in the last few weeks helping fellow students who […]
Our genealogy class got out early today so that people could either work on assignments, do research or come down to LPL to vist the “London Room”, the library's local history room. I'd seen the room briefly during our LPL tour in Public Libraries class but had a couple hours to kill before I had […]
Is there anything better than getting your e-mail in-box under control? This program is pretty e-mail heavy at the best of times but this semester and especially this week has been crazy. I chip away and get my in-box under 100 messages and 25 more come in. I literally received 40 messages today on one […]
Shea and I whipped into Toronto today to attend the Baby and Toddler Show this afternoon. A bit disappointing in terms of the number of exhibitors but this is probably a case of us being really early in the pregnancy mixed with the fact that they weren't giving out free books like the last time […]
