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 […]
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Notes from Rachel Van Riel Workshop at Regina Public Library
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 […]
Five Hits on Thanksgiving Day
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 […]
Saskatchewan’s Libraries Helping to Support California Pro-Pot Legislation?!?
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 […]
“Maybe I Can Download My Nora Roberts and Nobody’ll Know I’m Reading Her!”
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:
Five Hits
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. […]
When Did Librarianship First Enter The Picture As An Option For Me?
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 […]
Purple Cows & Public Libraries
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 […]
Friday Fun Link – An Environmentally Friendly Reference Desk
Plus it’s a good way to re-use weeded books instead of having to pulp them! (via Pages Bookstore Facebook Feed)
Which Tribe Do You Lead?
Seth Godin giving a TedTalk on the tribes we lead – the idea that we’re passed the age of marketing and back to an old fashioned idea that our main influence is the people around us (but now, we have technology instead of campfires to tell our stories around.) Lots of relevant ideas whether you’re […]