I’m pretty excited about our staff conference on Friday (although the last minute details and fire fighting gave me a bastard of a headache today so that I ended up coming home and crashing for two hours.) But I think we’ve got a great line-up – including having not one but two sessions by the […]
Sure, when you get your MLIS degree, you learn some skills that are supposedly important – how to catalogue, how to answer a reference question, that Meville Dewey preferred to spell his name “Dui”. But there are some other skills and abilities that you don’t necessarily learn in library school that are possibly even more […]
One of the great advantages of being in a province-wide system now is that there is a much greater chance that a patron can find a book they’re looking for, even if it’s a bit more obscure or was published a long time ago. I recently had this experience myself when I was looking through […]
RPL hosted a workshop with well-known library consultant, Rachel Van Riel of OpeningTheBook.com today, the only Saskatchewan stop on a cross-Canada tour that will also take her to Alberta and Ontario. The information presented was excellent and I’d highly recommend her to anyone looking for ideas on how to improve their libraries. As always, a […]
Hockey The Flames got spanked in their first game of the season against the Oilers (who almost made me want to cheer with them with what a dynamic young team they’ve assembled. But then I remembered that only could happen after they’ve sucked for much of the last decade so the feeling passed.) Topping the […]
I could write headlines for the World Weekly News with a subject line like that! But I did catch this little tidbit in a story about how Facebook is refusing pro-pot advertisments, even as one of the site’s co-founders donated $50 000 to the cause. Stephen Silberstein, the founder of Innovative Interfaces, a company that […]
Yesterday, I mentioned that we now had all 10 library regions in Saskatchewan live on the SILS system after the final remaining groups in Phase III came online. Chinook Regional Library, based in Swift Current Saskatchewan, created a cute little YouTube video to promote this milestone for their library system:
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I did this semi-recurring feature a couple times on my old blog but can’t remember what I called it. Five hits? Five Thoughts? Five Things? Anyhew, that’s not important. Here’s your quick hits: Hockey If you haven’t watched Battle of the Blades, you should whether you like hockey or figure skating or both or neither. […]
We had our annual New Staff Orientation Day on Friday. It’s a day when we get all of the staff who’ve joined RPL within the past year to come in and hear from the various managers, committee members (eg. OH&S) and others with specialized positions (eg. our Assessment Librarian) about how all of the different […]
Recently finished Seth Godin”s book “The Purple Cow” which has a main premise that businesses should no longer do mass marketing to the big bulge that is the early and late majority but instead, focus on niche marketing to the much smaller but much more rabid early adopters group who are much more likely to […]
