During my FTRW series last year, I did one post about a book that had been removed from Saskatoon Public Library back in 2004. Beyond having fun with the healthy rivalry between our two fine cities, I also tried to make a serious point. In addition to sounding like a really flimsy reason to remove […]
A few links about where the place where writing, publishing and selling controversial books intersects… In a post about Chapters deciding to not stock Mein Kampf during FTRW 2007 (part of a larger post that’s worth re-reading this week, he says humbly), I stated that although I wished bookstores would operate to a higher standard […]
We screened a few films during library school that either had a library theme (Party Girl) or that somehow related to library issues. One that we showed which is very heavily connected to the concept of freedom to read/freedom of speech was “The Aristocrats” and my frequent partner-in-crime, Quinn Dupont outdid himself by playing this […]
Time for my annual weekly series of posts for Freedom to Read Week. (Yay!) I’ll start with a great response from a YA novelist to a parent who got the writer’s book removed from a school library. All the core points of any book challenge are there in this brief letter: you should monitor you […]
This is sort of an extension of an earlier post on “What is the One Defining Quality of Desirable Employees?” where I claimed that optimism trumped all. I recently watched a YouTube clip (sorry, didn’t save the link) where the CEO of Zappo’s talked about some of the unique things they asked during interviews and […]
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Posted 17 February 2011
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Just a link dump of some of the stuff I’ve got hanging around in my browser… “Evolving English” Exhibit at the British Library (via MF) “You’ll Upset Your Mother” – Atheists Are Expected to Remain Silent In A World Where Religion Is the Norm O Canada: Economic Lessons from Our Northern Neighbour (via somebody on […]
Believe it or not, RPL offers ~5000 programs a year. This was one of the best (and most successful) I’ve been to, popping down during my lunch hour last week:
The 100 Best First Lines The 100 Best Last Lines Part of Pace’s storytime routine is that when we come to the end of a picture book, I say “What do we say when we come to the end of a book?” and then he yells out “THE END!” So that’s probably my favourite last […]
Today is the one year anniversary of RPL going live as part of the SILS consortium. Hard to believe and definitely deserving of a list (or even two!) Best Things About SILS 1. Patrons (and staff) can now easily get books from any public library system in the province. Especially for smaller systems with fewer […]
It’s no secret that I’m interested in the role of “fun” – fun at work, fun at home, fun in life – not just because fun is, well, FUN! but because I strongly believe it has a real impact on how people work, live and interact. One timely example comes from the National Family Literacy […]
