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FTRW 2016 – Day One – Violent Video Games

It’s the most wonderful time of the (fucking) year! 😉 Yes, it’s Freedom to Read Week again, a holiday celebrated by librarians, writers, book lovers, artists, filmmakers and anyone else interested in the issue of censorship and free expression. As usual, I’m planning to do a week of posts on different topics to do with […]

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Shooting A Promotional Video

Six years ago, a colleague and I spent an afternoon shooting a promotional video about Regina Public Library for a local cable TV company…

¶ Posted 11 February 2016 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Farewell CLA

The Canadian Library Association recently voted to wind down their operations so they can be re-born as a new “federation of associations” from across Canada and also to re-focus on what they do best (national voice for libraries = yes; conferences = not as much, especially when OLA is widely regarded as “the” Canadian library […]

¶ Posted 04 February 2016 § Canada § LibrarySchool § List § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario, travel

Throwback Thursday – UWO’s Faculty of Information & Media Studies January 2006 MLIS Cohort

[Edit: I have no idea why I posted this on a Wednesday. I’ve fixed the date.] I’m still thankful that, ten years ago this month, a couple upper year students told me during my first couple weeks of library school that it’s more important to get a photo of the people you start the program with rather […]

¶ Posted 21 January 2016 § Humour § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, ontario, travel

19 Crazy Facts About Bill Gates’ Mansion

He is the richest man in the world after all (and his library sounds amazing!)

¶ Posted 22 December 2015 § Internet § Technology § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, science

Secular Sunday – The Joy of Celebrating A Godless Christmas

At my library branch, we’ve had lots of interesting conversations around the “Happy Holidays/Merry Christmas” dichotomy that always happens at this time of year in western society. We talked about how to balance the library’s responsibility to be inclusive and respectful of all faiths, cultures and beliefs but also how Christmas is the holiday most […]

¶ Posted 13 December 2015 § Family § PopCulture § SecularSunday § Xmas ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, economics, holiday, philosophy, xmas

Saturday Snap – RPL Staff Photo

A variety of people including Regent Place Branch Staff and assorted others who helped make RPL’s 2015 Maker Event happen…

¶ Posted 05 December 2015 § Humour § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute

Friday Fun Link – WWE’s Luke Harper Previously Worked As School Librarian

This is pretty funny when you think about it. Yep, this guy… Also this story… Harper was a librarian while working on the indies. He told a story how he was busted open in a cage match with Cesaro, couldn’t really stop the bleeding and had to wear a hat during work the next Monday […]

¶ Posted 20 November 2015 § FridayFunLink § Humour § Jobs § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – New Computer System @OfficialRPL #yqr (February 2010)

RPL is moving to a new ILS over the coming week which reminded me of the last move we had five years ago…

¶ Posted 17 September 2015 § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, saskatchewan

“His Name Was Alan Kurdi”

A “refugee crisis” is something far away and remote. Kenya. Bangladesh. Syria. Foreign. Easily ignored. But this. This is something different. This is a child. A child whose death has given a face to the millions of other children and adults around the world who are fleeing natural disasters and famine and war. A child posed as […]