When you’re sitting at home sick and shivering with a (slightly less) sick kid sitting beside you, that’s a good time for a post listing some of your biggest pet peeves… 1. Captchas that use nonsense words and/or stretch words so that it’s almost impossible to decipher them. (“Is that an ‘i’? An ‘l’? A […]
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Posted 18 August 2010
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Look at all the baby librarians!!! Just joking but this is a great video about the UWO library school a couple current graduating students. I’m in HR but don’t actually have the magical power to hire anyone. Too bad though – I’ve often thought that libraries should be monitoring what’s happening in library schools and […]
A couple recent posts talking about extended breastfeeding got me thinking about the many minority opinions and beliefs I hold. Here's what I came up with…1. Extended Breastfeeding – Not even 20% of Canadian babies make it to nine months let alone past a year (or two!)2. Atheism – anywhere between 16-30% of the population […]
Recurring feature alert! I've done this before where I do five quick hits on my five most common topics on this blog and why not, let's do it again.Here's a few quick hits on my most popular topics… HockeyUhm, it's July 28. This does not bode well for this aspect of the Pop Topics recurring […]
I agree with this article that a public library is a perfect setting for an ensemble TV dramedy or a reality show. (And in the comments, someone says that Brad Pitt's production company has optioned the book “Quiet Please! Dispatches from the Public Library” for a movie as well.)We definitely have all the stereotypes characters […]
I know its juvenile but given how he died, you have to admit that this DVD case for a David Carradine Tai Chi workout has some unfortunate text on the cover promoting its “benefits”. When I saw the case at the library, I just burst out laughing. Then I realised this would be my […]
Here's some local coverage of a book that's being produced by RPL's “Friends of the Library” group to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the opening of our original Central Library. I'm pretty excited as I ended up being asked to do a brief blurb on what RPL has meant to me over the years so […]
[Edit: It helps if I actually remember to put a link to the story I'm highlighting in the body of a post.]
We're back from our trip (actually, have been back since last Thursday night but I was enjoying my blog holiday too much to start posting right away.) But today was back to work and so I'll get back to working on my blog as well. I'm not sure if the blog holiday will influence how […]
