Grade one for him… New Regent Place Branch Head for me…
After eighteen months, I had my final shift at Regina Public Library’s Outreach Unit yesterday. (On Tuesday, I become Branch Supervisor of our Regent Place Branch.) Although the strong emphasis on service to a marginalized community is a perfect fit for my own interests and values, I never thought this was a role I would’ve […]
Ended up having a conversation with someone at the library today and the question of what the library is going to look like in twenty years came up. My initial response was “That’s impossible to predict – who in 1993 would’ve predicted the rise of the e-book, DRM, Amazon, Google – and the impact all […]
I’m back from a couple weeks off and this week will be a transition week with me splitting my time between the Outreach Unit where I’ve worked for the last 18 months and the Regent Place Branch where I’ll (officially) be the Branch Head as of next Tuesday. Sometimes it’s the small things – I […]
I’ve known for a couple weeks but since I now have a start date, I thought I’d officially announce that I have a new position at RPL. As of September 3, I’ll be the new branch head at Regina Public Library’s Regent Place Branch. This is exciting for a number of reasons… Regent is the […]
For the past few weeks, Reddit Gold members (those who pay an annual subscription fee) have been able to beta-test a new feature called Multi-Reddits. That feature has now gone live for all Reddit members. With thousands of sub-reddits, it’s difficult to keep track of them all. Multi-reddits allow you to combine similar reddits into […]
Was out on the Reference Desk covering a lunch break again today. Instead of going by memory, I consciously made notes to myself about the questions I answered which I thought would be an interesting companion to yesterday’s post on the same topic… The current time in Zurich, Switzerland Help printing an e-mail (our PAC’s […]
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Posted 01 August 2013
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Although I’m working in RPL’s Outreach Unit, I occasionally go out to help on the Reference Desk, especially since they’re short-staffed right now, because of both summer holidays and some vacancies. I was out to cover a lunch break today and in one short hour, I got a fairly representative sample of questions you get […]
The CLA Government Library & IM Network has a weekly feature on their web site where they ask various librarians across Canada a standard set of 13 questions that helps give some insight into the wide variety of backgrounds, specializations and interests of people serving as librarians across Canada and beyond. My own profile got […]
GRRM, a producer on the “Game of Thrones” TV show provides a great visual example of why books are almost always so much better than TV/movies. This is a comparison of the artist’s rendering of his vision of The Iron Throne and what they eventually got… [Edit: I’m an idiot – GRRM is an acronym […]
