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Music Monday – Library Songs

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 […]

Posted 13 August 2012 § MusicMonday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

“Goodnight iPad” – A Parody

The classic children’s book gets re-imagined for our modern age.

Posted 22 July 2012 § Humour § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Too Many Tab Tuesday – Library Edition

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 […]

Posted 17 July 2012 § ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Good News Round-Up!

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 […]

Posted 13 July 2012 § FridayFunLink § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

The Generosity Strategy

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?

Posted 12 July 2012 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

iDevices and the Visually Impaired

I think I may have posted at least one of these links before but here’s a collection of a few cool stories about how iDevices (iPhones & iPads) have out-of-the-box accessibility features and add-on apps that are changing the lives of visually impaired people in majorly significant ways (that second story about how a new […]

Posted 27 June 2012 § Sad § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Save a Library By Burning Books?

Brilliant! (via MetaFilter with a h/t to the colleague who sent it to me at the exact same moment!)

Posted 15 June 2012 § Humour § Politics § Video § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Shit Sighted People Say To Blind People

I try to keep this video in mind as I go about my work in the Outreach Unit at Regina Public Library. (Actually, the guy who made this video has a whole series that are worth checking out to get a humourous take on life as a blind person.)

Posted 12 June 2012 § Humour § Video § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Friday Fun Link – Watch Books Being Bought Live and Worldwide

Pretty cool site that shows books as they’re bought around the world – hard to look away!

Posted 08 June 2012 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Saturday Snap – Customer Service

Often times, working in libraries means you’re getting abused – by patrons who are mad that you won’t waive their hundreds of dollars in fines or pissed that you won’t give them unlimited guest passes on the Internet or that you don’t know the name of that book that they want to read “that’s blue”. […]

Posted 26 May 2012 § SaturdaySnap § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: