Well, the noughties aren't quite over but that hasn't stopped various “Best of the Decade” lists from starting to appear including this one of the Top 50 Books of the 2000's (including some mini-essays on some of the most notable ones.)
A colleague and I recently facilitated a forum for the professional librarians at RPL. The first question we asked as an ice breaker was “How did you you become a librarian?” The choice of that question wasn't inspired by the Library Routes Project but obviously the idea of hearing how people come to the career […]
Last night, Jon Stewart had some fun discussing the Master of Library Science's sister degree, the Master of Archival Studies. (Fast forward to 1:40).
In my quest to have a designated theme for every day of the week, maybe I should start a “Sappy Sunday” one if I keep finding touching articles like this one? Man, every librarian should have a story like this. My best attempt so far was a failure – in my last job, I found […]
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 […]
