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The Second Job You Don’t Know You Have: How Self-Checkouts, ATMs and Airport Check-Ins are Changing Our Economy

Shadow work [is] all the unpaid jobs we do on behalf of businesses and organizations: We are pumping our own gas, scanning our own groceries, booking our travel and busing our tables at Starbucks. Shadow work is a new concept, so as yet, no one has compiled economic data on how many jobs we, the […]

Posted 20 May 2015 § Jobs § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

How JK Rowling Plotted Harry Potter With A Hand-drawn Spreadsheet

Interesting.

Posted 08 April 2015 § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Equality vs. Equity

An important thing to keep in mind as you move through this world…

Posted 07 April 2015 § Infographic § Meme § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Saturday Snap – Green Screen

Playing around with RPL’s green screen along with our Manager of Virtual Services.   

Posted 21 March 2015 § Photo § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Travel Planning, Coincidence and (Another) Once In A Lifetime Experience

Recently, at my library, I delivered a program called “Trip Planning 2.0: How To Research Your Vacation Online” where I gave registrants a “guided tour” of some the most useful sites for trip planning, both well-known (Google, TripAdvisor) and lesser-known (Reddit, FourSquare). (The program was basically an expanded version of a blog post I did […]

Posted 17 February 2015 § PopCulture § Technology § Travel § Video § Work ‡ Comments (5) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – 1987 RPL Newsletter

A co-worker retired this week and brought a copy of the internal staff newsletter that featured her on its cover back in 1987!

Posted 22 January 2015 § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

Some Resonant, Relevant Quotes on Free Speech and the Charlie Hebdo Massacre From The #MetaFilter Thread #jesuischarlie

So I wrote about the Charlie Hebdo massacre in a rather rambling manner the other day. I’m still thinking about what happened a lot – the conflict between unrestrained freedom of speech defenders (here!) and a sort of “Can’t we all get along/be kind and non-offensive to everyone” reaction which I have some sympathy to but […]

Posted 11 January 2015 § Censorship § Humour § LibrarySchool § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Music Monday – Honoring Our Parents: The Legacy of Residential Schools

There’s a popular story making the rounds on social media to help people in positions of privilege understand exactly what the concept means and what it affords them. The essence of the story is that a high school teacher sets a recycling bin at the front of the room then gives his students wads of paper […]

Posted 05 January 2015 § Canada § MemoryLane § MusicMonday § Saskatchewan § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Christmas Eve Closing Hours for Canadian Public Libraries

Earlier this fall, I had occasion to do some research on the Christmas Eve closing hours of various Canadian public libraries. (Not all libraries post their Christmas Eve hours since it’s not a full “Closed Day” in most places, only a partial day so I was thankful for those that did provide this information.   […]

Posted 24 December 2014 § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Why Librarians Defend The Right To Watch Porn at the Library

This is a great article on an important topic but my short answer is this: “Beyond limits set by the existing laws of the land, no one should have right to tell anyone else what they can read/watch/listen to.  Period.” To expand on this a bit… I’ve seen patrons watching things that are a lot […]

Posted 14 December 2014 § Censorship § MemoryLane § Politics § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: