It's extremely rare that you'll hear me advocating for a book to be challenged. But as my former classmate (and published author) Corey Redekop asks in his post on this year's Freedom to Read Week celebrations: “could you challenge me? Call a library and demand that I be taken off the shelves? Nothing sells a […]
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FTRW 2010 – Saturday Snap – Freedom to Read Week Begins Tomorrow!
Freedom to Read Week beings tomorrow. Flickr has lots of photos (including displays from libraries around the world) to get you in the mood! Plus you might even happen across a library colleague who bears a striking resemblance to a young Malcolm MacDowell in his FTRW shoot!
Friday Fun Link – Winter Olympics Begin (February 12, 2010)
Not sure if you heard but apparently the Wet & Rainy Olympics are in Canada this year and the opening ceremonies are tonight. The Olympics are once again a lightning rod of controversy and having them on our own doorstep has perhaps brought this home in a way that doesn't happen when they're in Italy […]
Saturday Snap – RPL Joins SILS (from local CTV station)
Used a poor man's hack (point iPhone at TV) to get a clip from our local TV news about RPL joining our new province-wide consortium onto YouTube. Sorry for the crappy sound…
FTRW 2010 – Nothing Warms The Heart Like The Call For A Good Book Burning
So many choice quotes in this article – unfortunately, you can't make this stuff up: “The row even spread to this year's Fourth of July parade, which included a float featuring a washing machine and a sign that read “keep our library clean.”“Outside West Bend, the fight caught the attention of Robert Braun, who, with […]
FTRW 2010 – Expanded Version of "The Diary of Anne Frank" Pulled From Classrooms in Virginia School
I think it's fair to say that the majority of the battles around Freedom of Expression are taking place in schools these days. “The Diary of Anne Frank” is one of my favourite books of all-time and a book I probably first read when I was 12 or 13. So in a world where all […]
Regina Public Library Joins SILS
Today was the big day when RPL joined three other library systems within the province who had already gone live as part of a province-wide library system called the Saskatchewan Information and Library Services consortium (SILS). By the end of the year, SILS will be comprised of a total of ten library systems covering the […]
FTRW 2010 – Music Monday – "I guess there's gotta be a break in the monotony/But jesus when it rains, how it pours."
It's February which means Freedom to Read Week is coming at the end of the month. Every year, I try to do a few posts during that week to celebrate and draw attention to this important subject. For the past year, I've been bookmarking various stories I've come across that I thought had potential for […]
What Are The Top Academic Journals In Various Fields?
An AskMetaFilter thread which may be of particular use to those in academic libraries. Nobody's posted the top Library Science journals and I can't remember the names of the ones that were supposed to be the tops in their field (though I do remember getting lectured by our 501 professor when he realised that most […]
Friday Fun Link – "Library" at WikiHow (January 30, 2010)
WikiHow is a site where anyone can add instructional guides on pretty much any topic you can think of. There's lots of good information (in between the tons of Google ads) from How to Teach Yourself Piano to How To Treat A Snakebite – although the usual caveat about the guides being user-submitted and editable […]