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Saturday Snap – Family (Un)Literacy Night: Some Highlights

Walked Sasha over to her school’s Family Literacy Night earlier this week and we didn’t even read one story at the “Reading Activity Station” but we sure had fun playing with the stuffed animals and telling stories using crazy voices. One mom sort of glared at us goofing around and I was this close to […]

Posted 01 February 2020 § Humour § Photo § Politics § Sasha ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Music Monday – “Every whisper/Of every waking hour I’m/Choosing my confessions”

Recommended by a patron at my branch… “Losing My Religion” – Lacuna Coil

Posted 27 January 2020 § MusicMonday § Randomness § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

It’s Okay To Have Too Many Books, In Fact, It May Be Beneficial

After a lifetime as a reader, studying English in undergrad, working with book publishers and writers across two provinces, attending book & publishing conferences where advanced reading copies are given out freely, even hitting way too many charity book sales and garage sales in my life, I suspect I own roughly a thousand books. How […]

Posted 26 January 2020 § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

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 § Internet § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Technology § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Library Director Jason Hammond?

No, not me but still pretty cool…

Posted 07 January 2020 § Humour § Jobs § Photo ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

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 § Internet § Jobs § List § Meme § MemoryLane § UK § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

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 […]

Posted 12 November 2019 § Canada § Censorship § Internet § List § News § Politics § PopCulture § Sports § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

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:

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:

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: ,