Home from BC and lots of catching up to do in terms of e-mail as well as other domestic chores. Back to work next Tuesday and the two weeks I had off for Pace's birth have passed way too fast, especially with a three-day detour in the middle of it. It was fitting that I […]
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CLA New Librarians Interest Group Survey
With the CLA conference coming up (already on? What day is it again???), the New Librarians Interest Group is doing a survey of students and recent grads to explore why (or why not) they attend the annual conference. I think this one is well-worth filling out as this is a pretty important topic and depending […]
Friday Fun Link – The Best Places To Get Free Books Online (May 18, 2007)
LibrarianActivist has highlighted a couple sites in the past that offer free e-book downloads but this page has a comprehensive list of all the options online for getting free e-books and tree-books. (I love that the title of the post where I saw it on MetaFilter is “The Best Place To Get Free Books” and […]
"When everything is available online, why come to the library at all?"
This is a 7 minute video from the Aarhus Public Library in Denmark. It looks at what the future library may look like. (via ALA Direct newsletter. More info at: It's All Good)
Friday Fun Link – The Hollywood Librarian: A Documentary (May 11, 2007)
“Ann Seidl’s full-length feature documentary, The Hollywood Librarian: A Look at Librarians on Film, will premiere at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., on June 22. The film shows the realities of 21st-century librarianship, including stereotyping, censorship and intellectual freedom, and the impact of librarians on society.” How good does this film look? Wow. […]
A Bit of Downtime
We've got a bit of a break before the evening events at SLA so me and a couple of my co-workers came back to our suite to relax. It's been a great day – seeing lots of people I know from my former life (SPG has a booth here staffed by a former colleague from […]
Eye-Opening!
(Ottawa, April 24, 2007) – The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce Melissa Poremba as winner of the Canadian Library Association’s 24th Student Article Contest for “Resources You can Count on @ Your Library”. Melissa is a distance education student in the Library and Information Technician Program at Mohawk College. The idea for […]
Slogans For A New Librarian?
I'm looking for fun slogans of the type a person might, for example, print out and post on the wall at their new library job. They don't necessarily have to be directly related to libraries or librarians but should capture the (to coin a phrase) “spirit of librarianship”.Here's a few I have so far…“Be The […]
My First Book Purchased As A Librarian
Learned how to deal with patron book requests yesterday and as part of that process, officially authorized my first ever book purchase which was Colony: The Harrowing Story of the Exiles of Molokai by John Tayman. One of my dream library jobs would be to do full-time adult non-fiction (ANF in the vernacular) acquisitions so […]