If Jeff Bezos was smart, he'd have incorporated a stylus right into the design of the Kindle so authors could “sign” their digital books. (Of course, maybe they feared this would make getting a signed book no more special than getting a package from UPS.)
I heard about this innovative library program during a presentation by Red Deer Public Library’s Director at CLA. For the last two municipal elections, that city’s library has created information pages for all municipal candidates from the mayor to council to both school boards. The candidates provided the information and the library simply posted it […]
Came across this article while doing some unrelated searches. It's short so I'll quote it in its entirety. The cool thing? It's from 2003! I don't know what the Sask NDP uses these days but hopefully they've only expanded their use of open source technologies! (The link back to the original NDP newsletter with three […]
Regina Leader-Post columnist, Will Chabun, has a different take on what Dwain Lingenfelter's role might be in the current political climate by drawing parallels to other times of upheaval for the provincial NDP. He's also got another piece on his blog about the role that a small community branch library at RPL played in […]
When I recently told someone I'd just been to the CLA conference, he replied “So you're a nerd then?”“It's worse than that,” I replied. “I happily spent the first day with the Emerging Technologies Interest Group. So I'm like an uber-nerd of the library world!” In that spirit, here's my Geek Chart:Headtale's Geek Chart Here […]
This is where myself and two colleagues from Saskatchewan had supper tonight after the end of the CLA conference…It's pretty amazing for a number of reasons. This restaurant is completely in the dark once you leave the reception area where you order your meal and leave all forms of illumination in lockers (cell phones, lighters, […]
My session this morning went okay but for the second time in less than a month, I was disappointed that I didn't “nail it” the way I wanted to. In library school, I used to regularly do presentations that kicked ass (he says humbly). One got a comment from a student who won Highest Academic […]
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Ask.Reddit has some interesting responses to the question “If you could read one book again for the first time, what would it be?” Hmm, one book? There are a few that pop into my head and it's pretty hard to pick just one. Whenever asked the other impossible-to-answer book question, “What's your favourite book of […]
Just got back from Saskatoon after a few days there for a demo of the new SILS software and then the SLA conference. I started doing a long narrative entry to sum up the week but that's not happening so here's some “I'm too tired to think” random highlights…1. My presentation went well and the […]
