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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: music

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: book, education, language, science

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: cool, history, music

Library Director Jason Hammond?

No, not me but still pretty cool…

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

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: education, twitter

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: freedomtoreadweek, language, ontario

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 […]