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 […]
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Music Monday – "Snow's so merciless/Poor old Montreal/In spite of everything that's happened/In spite of it all"
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 […]
Kevin MacKenzie Double Workshop – April 18
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 […]
Innovation Spotlight – Las Vegas Public Library
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 […]
Some Final Thoughts About FIMS From A Current Student
Warren L. from Libre-arian has a post summing up his experiences at FIMS (including a shout-out to yours truly.) Not sure if I mentioned before but while I was at FIMS, someone told me that as soon as you're done the program (really, as soon as you hand in your last assignment because, really, if […]
What is the Most Common Question Library Users Ask?
I even knew the answer – “where's the bathroom?” wins in a landslide! (via AskMetafilter)
Friday Fun Link – Are You A Degree Snob? (March 6, 2009)
I'm not sure where I first heard the term “degree snob” but it was most memorably put to me in reference to a professional librarian who would literally not lower themself to speak to non-professional staff if it could be helped! With that as a jumping off point (and based on some of my […]
Michael Gorman's Eight Core Library Values
I was thinking about this today – Gorman's list is one of the first things you should acquaint yourself with in Library School 101 to learn the framework for everything that will inform your role as a professional librarian. But I was also thinking about the fact that a lot of people who work in […]
FTRW 2009 – Internet Filtering in Ontario Lbraries?
I started the week talking about a discussion the librarians at RPL were having about the issue of patrons viewing pornography on the public access computers. Although this is an important philosophical discussion, I'm happy to report that (at least as far as I know), patrons' viewing isn't being monitored or censored and no policy […]
I Love #8 (Followed Closely by #10 with #87 to show.)
One of our branch librarians did a three-week study in her location to record the type and variety of reference questions her staff received. With her permission, I've reprinted the list her staff compiled below. The list of questions includes the criteria she gave her staff as to what should be recorded.I think this list […]