You are invited to A Post-Work Gathering For Regina and Area LibrariansFriday, July 20, 2007 from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm To be held at Cathedral Village Free House (2062 Albert Street) — your hosts are Jason Hammond and Julie McKennaThis is a chance for any librarians in Regina and area to get together for […]
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Friday Fun Link – If Public Libraries Didn't Exist, Could You Start One Today? (July 13, 2007)
The author of the popular Freakonomics book looks at the question, “If public libraries didn’t exist, could you start one today?” “But here’s the point I’m (finally) getting to: if there was no such thing today as the public library and someone like Bill Gates proposed to establish them in cities and towns across the […]
A Hipper Crowd of Shushers
Here's an article that's making the rounds from the New York Times' Fashion & Style section – A Hipper Crowd of Shushers“How did such a nerdy profession become cool — aside from the fact that a certain amount of nerdiness is now cool? Many young librarians and library professors said that the work is no […]
Storyteller Coming To London
In the course of talking to the performer I've booked for our Summer Reading Club tour, he mentioned that a colleague, Bonnie Logan, will be appearing in London, ON for a similar tour. I said that there are still quite a few people from London and area reading this blog so if he passed along […]
Friday Fun Link – The Concept of Alphabetization (June 29, 2007)
On late night TV talk shows, every show begins with the host inevitably saying something like “We’ve got a really good show for you tonight!” whether the guest is Tom Hanks or that guy who made the funny noises in the Police Academy movies. My Friday Fun Links are sort of the same thing – […]
Show Pile
I don't talk a lot about my work on this blog but I thought I'd discuss one of my favourite activities that I do – approving the purchase of books that patrons have requested – to celebrate my three month anniversary in this position which is tomorrow. In my library system, this is known as […]
Friday Fun Link – Does Internet Filtering Work? (June 22, 2007)
In keeping with the topic of the day over at my other most favourite site on the Internet, LibrarianActivist, here’s a report on internet filtering from the National Coalition Against Censorship which is admittedly, a bit dated, having been produced in 2001. But it gives an excellent overview of many of the issues and problems […]
Friday Late Link – Public Library Does Away With Dewey (Fri June 15, 2007)
I had this ready to go yesterday but never got near a computer to post it. So I'm backdating to Friday and life goes on… “The Prelinger Library is a small privately owned “public library” in San Francisco with the unique philosophy that browsing library stacks can reveal new knowledge, if the books are arranged […]
Friday Fun Link – Librarians As The Enemies of Books (June 6, 2007)
A bookseller writes in Library Quarterly about how librarians are the enemies of books – marking them up with tape, stamps and glue, getting rid of unwanted and obsolete books and so on. (Oh, and it’s an article written in 1937. Have things changed or are librarians still responsible for “ruining” books?) (via MetaFilter)
How To Give A Good Presentation
This is a subject that's been on my mind as a possible topic for a post since probably before I started this blog and came back to the forefront of my thoughts after getting some very nice compliments about the eulogy I did for my grandfather last week. I'm not a presentation expert by any […]