Usually, the “Homegrown” sign at my library helps identify a display of Saskatchewan books or perhaps a display of books about gardening or agriculture or something along those lines. But with the legalization of marijuana this week, we found another way to use this sign… 🙂
This is a pretty cool, innovative program with a lot of potential to pay ongoing dividends. And of course, the US is doing the opposite with prisons in Pennsylvania where inmates are no longer being allowed any form of print book sent by family members or charities but they can buy overpriced, overly restricted ebooks, […]
A few years back, I did a post where I researched the closing times for various Canadian libraries on Christmas Eve day. Of course Christmas Eve is not an “official” stat holiday but it’s still a day that many workplaces (not just libraries) recognize as a slow time and/or a good time to close early […]
I started at Regina Public Library on September 8, 2008 so this year is my ten year anniversary at RPL. Traditionally, people have thought of thirty years as a “typical” career in a workplace and though I worked for a decade in another sector before librarianship and though I also spent a couple years in […]
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I’ve always believed that science fiction is the single best type of writing to teach us about our own lives and society. So I’m absolutely fine when I think about sci-fi books with “inappropriate” content being put into the hands of kids even though the author of this article seems to think librarians put some books […]
This is a pretty cool initiative by Regina Public Library’s Dunlop Art Gallery and a variety of other partners and agencies to have public art in a variety of communities across Saskatchewan and encourage people to visit as many as they can. From the project’s “About” page: Saskatchewan is geographically diffuse. While half of the province resides […]
This idea is increasingly common in other public libraries across Canada but it’s very cool that that Regent Place where I work was the first public library branch in Regina to offer a Drag Queen Storytime as part of the Pride Festival. The idea isn’t without controversy in some circles but I was pleasantly surprised that the vast […]
There was a time, shortly after I graduated from my MLIS program, where I seriously thought about putting together a presentation about the importance of the public washrooms in libraries – from making the entire library as a welcoming space for the widest variety of people to being a great way to promote programs to […]
