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Name A Book That Was So Captivating That You Read It In One Sitting

Yet another patented Reddit book recommendation thread.

Posted 10 November 2011 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Wisdom Wednesday – Top Causes of Death in Canada

An interesting infographic from the National Post.  Cancer is the leading cause of death at 30% while heart disease comes in second at 21%.  (I don’t see that common library killer, “death by papercut” listed anywhere!)

Posted 09 November 2011 § Randomness § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – BookLamp

There are a lot of recommendation engines out there – Amazon, GoodReads, LibraryThing, Novelist, etc. etc. etc. – but BookLamp is one of the most unique I’ve found in that it tries to use pure mathematical algorithms to choose the books it recommends for users, similar to what Pandora does for music. Their biggest fault […]

Posted 04 November 2011 § FridayFunLink § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Libraries and Crowdsourcing

A great article giving a few examples of how libraries have used crowdsourcing to manage large projects that are beyond the scope of their regular workforce and/or which take advantage of the “Wisdom of Crowds”.

Posted 01 November 2011 § Technology § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Friday Fun Link – Some people bring their laptops to the library…

…this guy pulled this out of his bag. (via Reddit)

Posted 28 October 2011 § FridayFunLink § Technology ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Go The Fuck to the Library

It’s funny cause it’s true. (h/t to TR & CF)

Posted 21 October 2011 § FridayFunLink § Randomness § Work ‡ Comments (0) °

What’s 21 Months Overdue at RPL?

CUPE 1594, which represents the in-scope workers at RPL, launched an advocacy campaign today. Entitled “Check Us Out” with a slogan of “What’s 21 Months Overdue at Regina Public Library?”, its purpose is to draw attention to the fact that union members at RPL have been working without a contract for nearly two years. You […]

Posted 19 October 2011 § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Amazon, You Magnificent Bastard

An article on how Amazon’s use of their Kindles as loss-leaders for the digital content within their own “walled garden” ecosphere is a winning strategy that makes them a strong contender against Apple.

Posted 12 October 2011 § PopCulture § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Thanksgiving Genealogy

My mom’s taking a genealogy class so we spent quite a bit of time this weekend looking through her class notes, different web sites and reviewing the information she’d already gathered about her family. I’d taken a genealogy class in library school and had done quite a bit of research as well but mostly on […]

Posted 09 October 2011 § Family § MemoryLane § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Is There A Steve Jobs of Libraries?

One of the comments in the long MetaFilter thread about Steve Jobs’ passing stuck out for me: He made people try their hardest, and that’s the most important quality a leader can ever have. I really like how this definition of leadership is more about the impact the leader has on other people rather than […]

Posted 06 October 2011 § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: