There are many variations of the “What’s Your Favourite Book?” question online (many of which I’ve posted in the past.) Reddit recently provided another good one.
I recently discovered an awesome sub-Reddit called r/mapporn which features all kinds of really frickin’ cool maps such as “America 1681“, “Flipping European and North American Cities“, “World Map of Railways“, “Map of Facebook Connections” and I have to stop there or else I’ll just link to all their maps – each one is so […]
I admit that I’m such a library nerd that sometimes when I’m bored and can’t think of something to look at on the Internet, I’ll just go to a random library’s web site to see what’s up, what they’re doing, how they present themselves. It’s especially fun to pick libraries that you expect to be […]
The idea of a connection between happiness and productivity is a discussion I’ve had with a few people at work over the past couple years – some who are in agreement with the idea, some who feel there’s no link between happiness and productivity and some who are uncertain (or haven’t given it much thought […]
Today is my three year anniversary of starting work at RPL. A few stream-of-unconscious thoughts and observations… 1. I started working for the Writers Guild of Alberta at almost the exact same time of year – I know because I was in their office doing my initial training a couple days before September 11. (I’ve […]
This is the first new branch RPL has opened in something like fifteen years. Congratulations to all involved for all of your good work!
Anybody still using Google+? 😉 The site definitely seems to have cooled over after the big buzz of its launch (my all-time favourite G+ post was the one Redditor who posted “This site is already dead. Nobody’s using it anymore.” ONE WEEK after it went live!) Anyhow, I’m still checking it regularly – beyond the […]
Great to see that my former colleagues at Southeast Regional Library have started a YouTube channel with a focus on training videos for SRL staff. It is particularly gratifying to see that they’re still using the Branch Activity Report (BAR) that I created for our rural branches to report their ongoing activities to HQ. My […]
I’m currently reading a book called “Stampede! The Rise of the West and Canada’s New Power Elite” by Gordon Pitts of the Globe & Mail. This book came to my attention after winning a 2009 National Business Book Prize and, as you might expect given its title and author, it’s a fairly pro-business look at […]
Hipster hangout, Pitchfork, gets their editors to name their 60 favourite music books of all-time. I haven’t read all of them but have definitely read a few – that Ian MacDonald book on the Beatles is awesome!
