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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The World Digital Library officially launched yesterday. Here's some more info from their About page:The World Digital Library will make available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from cultures around the world, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and other significant […]
Time to break out the long-neglected “CLA Conference” tag. Just got word today that I was approved to go to this year's CLA conference in Montreal at the end of May! I'm especially happy about this because I'd had a feeler extended to see if I'd be coming to the conference and available to sit […]
In the morning, finger plays. In the afternoon, just play! Kevin MacKenzie is awesome and if you're near Regina, you should try to attend this workshop. In fact, you should consider planning a special trip to the Queen City just to check it out! Kevin MacKenzie – Double Workshop Day Sat. April 18th […]
One of the things I do in my position with RPL is work with a couple of my colleagues to write content for our internal staff e-newsletter. One week, we write an “RPL Update” which talks about some of the latest happenings at our library then. Every second week, we write an “Innovation Spotlight” which […]
