Please find below direct access to a one page web survey produced by the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom. This second annual survey is intended to help the Committee develop documentation about challenged resources and policies in Canadian libraries in the 21stcentury. This initiative supports Canada's Book and Periodical Council's (BPC) Freedom to Read campaign […]
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On The Road Again
I've had a few different jobs in my life. One of my favourites was my college summer job where I visited various small towns around Saskatchewan as a traveling cable TV salesman. (Yes, I know a “vacuum cleaner salesman” joke just popped in your head. Don't bother – I've heard it.)But this job was different […]
Survey on Engagement of New Library Professionals in Leadership
Kathleen DeLong, a librarian at the University of Alberta, is conducting a survey on the engagement of new library professionals in leadership roles and activities as part of her LIS PhD. If you're a recently hired librarian (within the last five years), why not take a few minutes to help her out by filling out […]
The 5 Most Annoying Programs on Your PC
Download Squad ranks them as follows: 1. Acrobat Reader2. iTunes3. RealPlayer4. Internet Explorer 5. Microsoft OutlookYet how many libraries rely on two or three of these programs, both for their PAC's and for their staff computers?
Threatened By The Internet? Music Biz Should Rock Like Librarians
Quinn has posted a great article on his site (I've bolded the really fascinating part below):At the risk of jinxing things – I think it’s pretty clear that there’s a historic shift underway between activities we used to engage in offline and things we now do online. It’s no surprise, for example, that CD saleswere down […]
More Than Babble: Baby's First Words May Be Key To Origins of Spoken Language
Pace is babbling up a storm these days (what's the line? “You spend the first few months of their lives waiting for them to talk and the next eighteen years wishing they would stop!” ) with lots of “da da”, “ga ga”, “blah blah, blah” (seriously!) and grunting noises. So I did some research (okay, […]
Links From All Over
Housecleaning isn't just a physical activity anymore – now, I find I have to take the time to clear out my virtual detritus every once in awhile too. So here are some links and articles I've had kicking around for awhile waiting for a good time to post. Amazon: New & Future Book ReleasesLibrarians talk […]
Friday Fun Link – Top Ten Library Stories of the Year (Dec 21, 2007)
LISNews presents their annual list of ten library-related stories that shaped 2007. Closer to home, our top story of the day is that Shea won the AM1190 “Turkey Trotter” today by stalking the radio station's van as she drove home from a doctor's appointment. It parked in its “secret location” (one block from our house) […]
Friday Fun Link – 33 Reasons Why Libraries and Librarians Are Still Important (Dec 7, 2007)
This list is focused mostly on the Internet and technology as things that librarians are better at (rather than librarians successfully utilizing these tools beyond what normal users might do – he says, typing on a blog) but it’s still a lot of food for thought. To be honest, I think it wouldn’t be hard to make a […]
"From Books to Beers and Stacks to Snacks" (Xmas Edition)
If you're a librarian in Regina, live nearby or are going to be back in town for the holidays, feel free to join us for a Christmas gathering on Friday December 14 from 5pm until whenever at Monarch's Lounge in the Hotel Saskatchewan. If you're on Facebook, full details are available here.