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What Are the Similarities and Differences Between Toronto Public Library and Don Cherry?

There have been a couple major media storms recently – Toronto Public Library faced a huge outcry for allowing a controversial speaker to proceed with a presentation in one of their branch meeting rooms and Sportsnet faced a huge outcry after longtime hockey icon, Don Cherry, made controversial remarks where he accused recent immigrants of […]

Saturday Snap – @officialRPL Movember Display

Staff at my branch had a lot of fun creating this display…

¶ Posted 09 November 2019 § Humour § News § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: health

Saturday Snap – A Strange (and Strangely Exciting?) Raffle Prize at @officialRPL Staff Day

I was a bit surprised to see what I thought was some sort of sex lotion in one of the raffle baskets I ended up winning at the RPL Staff Development Day yesterday. Fortunately (?), my reading comprehension isn’t so great for a librarian and my wife seemed a bit too relieved to inform me […]

¶ Posted 02 November 2019 § Humour § Sad § SaturdaySnap § Shea § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – #officialRPL Annual Report 1996 #yqr

One of the ladies in my branches’ “Celebrate Seniors!” program (she’s a model on page 2!) showed me an RPL annual report she recently rediscovered. Amazing stuff…

¶ Posted 31 October 2019 § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: history, saskatchewan

“You ar a good liberein”

Shea and I did a pretty major weeding of our kids’ book collections recently and I ended up giving a bunch to one of the teachers who regularly comes into my library (who also happens to teach at the school my kids go to so I have a soft spot for that school to begin […]

¶ Posted 29 October 2019 § Pace § PopCulture § Randomness § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, cute, education, language

Saturday Snap – The Risks of Doing An Election-Themed Display

I mean I’m not personally a fan of the guy but we happened to have Justin Trudeau’s autobiography in our collection so I put it on an election-themed display I did (along with a range of books about various topics and issues that are important to supporters of all parties this election season. I also […]

¶ Posted 19 October 2019 § Canada § Humour § News § Politics § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, history

Saturday Snap – I Hope They’re Not Looking For Me!

A bit nerve wracking to notice a police car pulled up right beside your own car while at work…

¶ Posted 12 October 2019 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) °

The Changing Nature of Freedom of Expression: Banning Books Is Anachronistic But Challenges Remain

Good article from The National Post about the changing nature of the debate around Freedom of Expression. What remains is that challenges still come from all sides of the political spectrum. …the bulk of work on freedom of expression is shifting from people who fruitlessly complain about books to attacks on journalists and bloggers. Also […]

¶ Posted 02 October 2019 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § LibrarySchool § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, language, philosophy

A Taste of What The Public Library in a Village of 255 People Has To Offer…

Man, do I love small town libraries! And always great to see the amazing things happening across the regional system where I first worked after completing my MLIS 13 (!) years ago. Southeast Regional Library has a slogan “Not The Library You Remember” and though I think it’s mostly aimed at people who only remember […]