I was asked to teach a four week “Intro To Computers” course for the month of November at the Weyburn Public Library, one of two city branches in our region, while they are temporarily short-staffed. Last week was my final class so I thought I'd put up the outlines and some thoughts in case that's […]
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(if) I DID IT!!! – Thoughts on the OJ Simpson Book
When I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta, one of my main jobs each year was to organize their annual book awards program. One of my most memorable experiences during this time was when of our members submitted her book in both the fiction and non-fiction categories. I looked at the book and saw […]
Friday Fun Link – Can You Spot the Library? (Nov 30, 2007)
I would love to visit a library that looked like this. (via Reddit)
Eight Laws of Library Technology
John M., who knows his stuff from both sides of the coin, having been an IBM web developer before beginning library school, has written a post entitled “Eight Laws of Library Technology” that's worth a read.This is a topic that's in my head a lot having recently been introduced to Evergreen, an open source ILS […]
Electronic Library Services Paper & Presentation
I made a somewhat cryptic reference to a special project I'd been given in a previous post on My 10 Favourite Things About My New Job. At the time, I said “I'm not going to talk too much about it here yet but I've been given a special project to work on that is about […]
I've Seen The Future of the ILS…
…and it just might be Evergreen. The University of Windsor is listed as one of the organizations involved with this open source ILS so if anybody who did a co-op there has thoughts (or anybody else who's familiar with Evergreen via other channels), I'd love to hear what you think. Useless trivia of the day: […]
Friday Fun Link – The Most Unusual Books In The World & 15 Word Illusions (Nov 23, 2007)
A couple fun visual sites…The Most Unusual Books of the World Fifteen Word Illusions And a bonus deep thought for the day: “As a librarian, you can be idealistic. As a manager, you must be pragmatic.”
My Five Most Useful Classes of Library School
When my boss came to Southeast Regional Library as their new director fifteen years ago, one of the first things he did was go out and work an actual front-line shift in a few of our branches to get a sense of the workload, what was effective in how our system operated, what wasn't and […]
Sask Political Parties Positions on Public Libraries
At work, I was asked to do some advocacy work on behalf of the Saskatchewan Library Trustees’ Association in advance of the upcoming provincial election which happens on November 7.(Okay, I didn’t get to have any actual input myself – I was mainly doing the grunt work of setting up a mailing list and coordinating […]
New CLA Web Site Launches
Here's an announcement that went out today about a project I've been volunteering on for the last six months or so. There's always going to be small things you'd change but overall, the new site is a big improvement on what the CLA had before and I'm proud to have been a part of this […]