A bit nerve wracking to notice a police car pulled up right beside your own car while at work…
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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 […]
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 […]
Flipping Through The History Books: Regina Public Library Celebrates 110 Years
One hundred and ten seems like a bit of an unusual anniversary to commemorate but anyhow, the Leader Post does have a great article about RPL and how it’s changed over the years.
Friday Fun Link – The Most Astonishingly Unconventional Children’s Books of 2019
Lots of intriguing titles on this list.
Pandas Adjusting Wonderfully to Calgary Zoo
We didn’t have many plans for our week off in August (ten days counting weekends on either end) but a chance conversation with a library patron has us heading to Calgary for a few days. We’d been talking about visiting the Calgary Zoo to see the pandas since they were announced as coming. But we […]
Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Public Library Cuts Again? #abpoli (June 2010)
It seems like one of the highest priorities for any conservative government is targeting the funding of public libraries – in Newfoundland (May 2016), in Saskatchewan (March 2017), in Ontario (April 2019), and now in Alberta (August 2019 (although to be fair, Jason Kenney’s Conservatives haven’t cut yet but are withholding 50% in advance of […]
(Belated) Throwback Thursday – #tbt – That’s A Switch! (April 2008)
Pace used his saved up birthday/Christmas/babysitting money to buy himself a $500 Nintendo Switch the other day – a long ways from when he was a year old and having fun on the $50 desktop computer I bought from Southeast Regional Library after they decommissioned it.
An Early Contender For My Favourite Book of the Year? @thejagmeetsingh #canpoli #cndpoli
I read Jagmeet Singh’s autobiography in pretty much a single sitting at our campsite this weekend and really enjoyed it. Obviously I’m a fan of Singh but I think this book would be one that anyone who enjoys memoirs would enjoy and learn from, whether they liked the NDP or not. * before it was […]