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Category Archives: Library

HubSpot’s Culture Code

It’s no secret that I am fascinated by the different approaches that so many tech companies take towards organizational culture compared to more traditional companies. Here’s another example – a presentation outlining tech marketing company, HubSpot’s cultural code.  (I especially love their three-word policy that guides pretty much everything they do: “Use Good Judgement”.  Also […]

Posted 02 April 2013 § List § Technology § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – “Welcome to Literarily Drunk. I’m drunk. And I like books!”

A new vlogger combines a couple of my favourite things – books and booze – in her Literarily Drunk reviews.

Posted 22 March 2013 § Humour § PopCulture § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Where Are All The Jobs? Librarians Needed!

Although it can seem dire sometimes, according to this graphic from MacLean’s (via Ken Haycock’s shiny new Facebook page), librarians will be one of the highest demand professions over the next decade. (I’m going to ignore that the actual wording doesn’t specify “librarians” and actually says “Technical Jobs in Libraries…” which could mean a lot […]

Posted 20 March 2013 § Jobs § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

How To Give A Dumb Farm Boy Librarian A Swelled Head

I attended the 2013 Stapleford Lecture at the U of R last night which featured Dr. Toni Samek from the U of A’s Library School. Her topic was: “Librarians Unplugged: How and Why Librarians Are Speaking Out About Crucial Social Issues”. My first swelled head moment came when I got the invitation to attend the […]

Posted 19 March 2013 § LibrarySchool ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – 16 Great Library Scenes in Film

I finally realized why I like “The Breakfast Club” so much – the whole movie is set in a library! 😉

Posted 22 February 2013 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) °

Saturday Snap – Manitoba Children’s Museum

During our trip to Winnipeg last weekend, we visited the Manitoba Children’s Museum.  One of the highlights for me was seeing that every single exhibit area had picture books scattered around that tied into the theme of that exhibit – the train that you could climb on had transportation books, the exhibit that let you […]

Posted 02 February 2013 § Canada § Family § Pace § Photo § PopCulture § SaturdaySnap § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Top 10 Things I Use As A Bookmark

A discussion on Reddit about who uses dust jacket flaps as bookmarks leads to all kinds of other related anecdotes… English Prof here: Want a great way to boost reading comprehension? Don’t use bookmarks! It’s weird and counter-intuitive, but what this does is force you to go back and quickly skim over what you read […]

Posted 17 January 2013 § List § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Five Topics

Haven’t done one of these “5 Quick Hits” posts in awhile… Hockey I didn’t miss the NHL when it was locked out but I can honestly say that today was the first day I felt like coming home from work, popping open a beer and settling in to watch a game.  Luckily that will be […]

Posted 15 January 2013 § Family § Pace § Politics § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Sports § Video § Work ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

Which Book Made The Most “Best of” Lists in 2012?

This is an interesting way to determine the best book of the year – see which book(s) made the most “Best of” lists?  (Kind of like using Google PageRank algorithm but for book lists!)  Of course the book on the most lists is one I hadn’t heard of – bad librarian, bad! In my own […]

Posted 27 December 2012 § List § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Shea § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Sometimes I Really Miss Calgary

Like when I read articles like this one where I know the business and most people in the article including Greg and Simone. Side note – I’ve long advocated that libraries should integrate the same type of question that Pages bookstore asks all their new applicants.

Posted 13 December 2012 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) °