Sasha loved crawling around the library when Shea, Pace and her came to see the magician that was appearing on Friday afternoon. The children’s area is fun, mostly because it has things that look like cords that you can actually play with (unlike the real cords at home which always get a frantic response […]
Regina Public Library does! And if you stop by to see me at Regent Place Library between 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. tomorrow afternoon before the big game, you too can have a Rider/Grey Cup-themed button of your own. Here’s what the table in my office looked like while I was practicing with the button making […]
Canada has a digital divide, a demographic that isn’t fully connected to the online world. In the past year, 20 per cent of Canadians haven’t used the internet once, from any location. And that number doesn’t include other kinds of disconnection, like those who don’t own a computer or cell phone, or who can’t use them effectively. […]
So this is an interesting one… Pace’s Grade One class has started a daily reading log where they’re assigned some easy readers. They have to record the titles of the books as they read them. In addition to the assigned reading, they can also record any other books (or chapters of books) they read or […]
So tomorrow is RPL’s annual staff conference and I’ll be receiving my five year pin which officially marks this as the job I’ve held the longest in my adult life since convocating with an undergrad degree in 1996 (although to be fair, I’ve been in four different positions over five years so I’m keeping up my […]
The Guardian recently published an edited version of Neil Gaiman‘s lecture for the Reading Agency. The Reading Agency’s annual lecture series was initiated in 2012 as a platform for leading writers and thinkers to share original, challenging ideas about reading and libraries. The lecture is amazingly good. On the purposes of reading (and specifically reading fiction)… Fiction […]
It’s flown by but today marks one month since I started as the Branch Manager at RPL’s Regent Place Branch. One word that keeps popping in to my head when I think about my new job is “comfortable”. What I mean by that is any new job, even one you want or are looking forward […]
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Posted 03 October 2013
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We all have our dirty, embarrassing secrets. Dracut Librarians are no exception. Here are a few of their dirty librarian secrets [2013-10-03: and the inevitable Tumblr now allows you to submit your own Library Shames.]
This week is Banned Books Week in the US (as opposed to last week of February in Canada for some reason.) Oh well – I’ll happily celebrate any week that celebrates banned books and pass along great articles profiling authors who’ve been banned. In 2008, when Phillip Pullman learned his novel, The Golden Compass, […]
Just discovered that Reddit has a sub-Reddit dedicated solely to photos of amazing and cool bookshelves. If you sort it by “Top” vote getting submissions, you might never go to another sub-Reddit again! 😉 Probably a good lesson for libraries in here somewhere too…
