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 […]
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"My Buddy Dwain" and "Tales From Garlic Flats"
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 […]
My Geek Chart (and a link to my CLA Presentation)
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 […]
O Noir Restaurant – Montreal
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, […]
Scroll Down for A Pic of Some Dork at the Emerging Technology Interest Group Pre-Conference
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 […]
Me in Montreal
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Friday Fun Link – "If there was one book you could read again for the first time, what would it be?" (May 8, 2009)
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 […]
Random Thoughts from the 2009 Sask Library Association Conference
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 […]
ETIG at CLA
I think I mentioned previously that I've been asked to represent public libraries on an Emerging Technologies Interest Group pre-conference panel. If you're a CLA member, you may have received a News Flash last week that this pre-conference session, along with a few others, were closed due to low registration numbers. Fear not – I've […]
Friday Fun Link – Ask MetaFilter Does Libraries (April 24, 2009)
Ask MetaFilter and MetaFilter are both good places to find threads about libraries since so many librarians hang out there. (I've linked to the pages for each site's entries that have been tagged with “library” but feel free to try variations such as “libraries”, “librarian”, “book”, etc.)Here are a couple recent AskMetaFilter threads that were […]