If you’re interested in learning more about Dr. Ryan Meili, a rumoured candidate for the leadership of the Saskatchewan NDP, why not pop down to Regina Public Library’s Central Branch next Wednesday evening for his Regina book launch event? This event follows successful launches at the public libraries in Swift Current and Yorkton as well […]
Lots to think about in this interview and presentation… Some choice quotes… We don’t have to wait to see if social media and crowdsourcing and mobile data in the cloud are going to add up to anything useful. It’s happened. These things are real, now today….We need to change our collective mindset from “let’s be […]
I’ve made a few passing references to the fact that I am no longer the Organization Development Specialist at Regina Public Library. Without going into specifics, there’s a bit of back story to how that all came about but the main thing to know for the purposes of this post is that when my position […]
Within a decade, RPL has gone from plans to close three branches plus two specialized units to opening two new branches within the last year and plans to hopefully build a new Central Library eventually. The latest branch opening was the new Regent Place location which happens to be the one closest to my home […]
Stumbled across this clip while doing a bit of research on what other Canadian public libraries are doing in terms of their YouTube accounts – are they putting up professionally edited and produced videos or is there a full range with people making homemade, self-edited videos with crappy sound and/or and/or bad lighting and/or comprised […]
The classic children’s book gets re-imagined for our modern age.
If You Could Redesign Any Aspect of Your Library, What Would You Do? (Reddit) Annoying Things Library Patrons Do/Say (LibraryThing) One Hundred Zeroes – ongoing updated list of Amazon bestseller e-books available for free Book Burning Party To Save a Library – this story and video made the rounds of the biblioblog/FB/Twitter-sphere awhile ago saying […]
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Posted 17 July 2012
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It’s been a pretty good news week for me. Week started with news that some long-awaited Assistive Technology I’d ordered at work had finally arrived. At the risk of being a “vague-booker” (er, “vague-blogger”) by hinting at things I can’t actually openly discuss right now, later in the week, I got a couple awesome pieces of […]
WordPress’s founder talks about the approach of giving away everything to do with your product in the hopes that you gain market share as well as making profit by sharing premium versions of your products. Other than that upselling part, kinda sounds like libraries, doesn’t it?
