The Globe & Mail recently had an article about the unfortunate fact that libraries see an uptick in usage during economic hard times. (Thanks to Sandra M. for the link.)
We've put Pace into a few different activities since he was about one year old. We did a few weeks of swim class (basically, “get used to the water while singing repetitive songs” class) while still in Weyburn last spring. Over the summer, we did no formal activities (unless “Chase Pace around the campsite” counts) […]
This clip is only tangentially related to libraries but I thought it was funny…as is pretty much anything with Rowan Atkinson in it. (Also, I have no idea where I first came across this clip so apologies if I nicked it from you or your blog.)
Steven Chabot, my colleague (and roomie) from the Canadian Library Human Resources Summit is looking into some of the reasons why men enter the profession. Anything related to gender and libraries is a personal interest of mine so I'll take a shot at helping him out (and I'd encourage you to do so too – […]
About once a month, give or take, RPL hosts an Education Institute presentation that staff members can attend. Today's session is Micheal Stephens giving his annual “Top Tech Trends” presentation and I was looking forward to it quite a bit. Unfortunately, both Shea and I got hit hard with the flu last night so instead, […]
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, gives a TED talk on his vision of a digitized future…
Shea and I were looking for something to get us out of the house after a couple of weeks staying mostly inside due to cold weather, holidays and illness. I was blanking on something to do until I remembered that today was RPL's 100th Anniversary celebration wrap-up after a year's worth of various celebrations and […]
Here's another one of those weird follow-the-leader stories where one thing leads to another which leads to another which brings it all back home. Or something like that. I recently had an old college friend find me on Facebook. I knew he'd graduated as a computer engineer from U of R and had gone to […]
You know you are a nerd when you spend your New Year's Day eve classifying all of your Facebook friends into sub-groups using the site's new(ish?) “Friend List” option.I didn't put a lot of thought into my classification scheme so it's a bit random and not the most accurate thing in the world but basically, […]
…but I'll probably order a copy to find out. As someone in the comments points out, it's a great marketing strategy for a new book on library blogs – mention as many library-related blogs as possible in your book then list them in your index. Put a sample of that index online making it likely […]
