This is a post I started near the end of library school and meant to post during my furious last week of longish, library school-related entries. But I never got it finished so I thought it would make a good 500th post for this blog instead. Yep, I’ve been at it just over a year […]
Congrats to Amanda Etches-Johnson who was recently named one of Library Journal's 2007 Movers & Shakers. Amanda taught the “Social Software” course at FIMS in Fall 2006 and everything I heard about this class sounded like it was amazing. I don't know many of the names on the list of past winners but wonder if […]
(This is just a random picture I grabbed off Flickr. Not a photo of the DVD collection of anyone I know.) Something I've noticed more frequently when visiting friends and family (and even on occasion when I get access to strangers' homes – ie. going to check out used baby items or whatever) is that […]
It's funny – you do a post you think will get lots of responses and then, ..not really. But then you do a bit of a throwaway post albeit on a fairly interesting hypothetical question and you get tons of thoughtful, passionate responses. So inspired by Cenobyte who said she was going to pose that […]
A fellow FIMS student pointed me to a new human-assisted search engine called Cha-Cha. It allows you to do regular searches but if you're stymied, you can also click on the “Search With Guide” button, a chat box pops up and you're quickly connected with one of their guides. Who are the guides? It doesn't […]
Last night, while thinking about the vast publishing industry and the fact that you could never read even a fraction of the books published each year, even in a lifetime of reading, I wondered “Are there any books that you could be sure that almost every single person who is a reader has read?” I […]
I said last week that I love getting something in my in-box on Friday morning that I can turn around and use as a Friday Fun Link later that same day. (In fact, feel free to e-mail me if you know a site that is funny, unique or thought-provoking. I can’t guarantee I’ll use it […]
Library of Congress comes in at #10 on a list of the ten largest databases. It might be a surprise who is listed as #1 but at the same time, you should take this list with a grain of salt as a lot of these numbers are speculative guesses. (via DiggieFilter which has some discussion […]
I was laying in bed last night trying to figure out what my blog is about now that I'm out of library school (which was 90% of my focus for the past year.) I came up with: 1. library-related stories2. technology developments 3. baby stuff …with a side helping of politics, Saskatchewan news bites and miscellanous […]
See below for a call for readers and audience members for a Freedom to Read Week event forwarded by the esteemed Michelle Lake. I organized the event last year and on a personal note, I think it's a great experience to participate in something like this – to learn more about freedom of expression issues, […]
