I helped coordinate/facilitate/organize a gathering of RPL's professional librarian staff this afternoon. In the course of planning the un-agenda for this session, one of the ideas I came up with was to have a series of library-related trivia questions that I could ask through-out the afternoon to keep things lively and light. Being a Web […]
Although his was the right fibula which is even worse! I've been on crutches for the past two weeks so we decided to just hit a couple local malls for trick or treating today. That meant I could take advantage of their free wheelchairs as that's a lot easier on the arm pits then hauling […]
The big scandals in libraries tend to happen out in front – somebody looking at porn, somebody else wants to censor a book, maybe a group trying to book a “how to kill yourself” workshop at the library – you know, that kind of stuff. But there was a minor scandal within the library world […]
The Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS) study is a major research project happening at the University of North Carolina. Here's a blurb from their web site's “About Us” page:“Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS) project is designed to study the career patterns of graduates of LIS programs. In general, LIS […]
Came across this photo on the official Sask Library Association page on Flickr – a shot of the judges for the Library Olympics event which was held after the Awards Banquet with one judge in particular showing a high level of enthusiasm. And bonus SaturdaySnap…one of the participants in the “Best Shush!” event:
I missed the end of Banned Books Week but meant to post this story – not just because it does a pretty good job of capturing the importance of Freedom to Read as a core principle in libraries – but also because it contains perhaps the greatest opening paragraph in a newspaper story of all-time:“So […]
Someone sent me this and even as someone who's very interested in the idea of generational differences, I honestly can't decide what I think of it. I'm sure it's a sincere idea aimed at building community and facilitating the exchange of information and experiences within the ranks of young librarians out there. But at the […]
I was talking to a non-librarian who was in doing some training for a couple library staff members this morning. We kept talking about our “Circ” department and she finally admitted, “Everytime you say that, I keep thinking of Cirque du Soleil!” (That naturally made me wonder what the effect on customer service would be […]
Banned Book Week which is held during the last week of September is the US equivalent of Canada's Freedom to Read Week which is held during the last week of February.Here's a post on MetaFilter about Banned Book Week including a really cool Google maps mash-up of book challenges across the US since 2007.
