I feel so fortunate to have grown up with parents who instilled a love of reading, news, politics and community engagement into me from a young age. Whether it was my dad reading the Leader Post from front-to-back every evening or my mom’s involvement on the Board of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, I have […]
It’s an ongoing debate about whether it’s better for managers to have direct frontline experience in their past or if a “good manager is a good manager” whether they’re selling insurance, dish soap or running a public library. We’re lucky in Saskatchewan that our province (and I believe BC) are the only provinces that require […]
In “honour” of the death of Scott Adams, I present one of the papers I wrote in library school. This was my Management class and, you won’t be shocked to hear that I had a lot of skepticism about what we were being taught (you’ll be more shocked to learn that management was my highest […]
I can’t remember for sure but think this Blue Jays game was the first and only Blue Jays game I’ve attended in my life? Or did I see an exhibition game in Regina once? Hmm, 1989 so that feels very possible. At any rate, this game was during a break in my Masters program. My […]
Fairly early in my career, I wrote a post called “10 Promises To Myself” where I tried to outline how I would approach my career and how I would always try to be true to my own values even if there was pressure to compromise for career advancement or financial rewards or even just pressure […]
Let’s go *way* back to my very first blog post back in February 2006, nearly two months into my MLIS program and thinking “What can I possibly take up as a hobby that will help me procrastinate with assignments *and* be something I’m still doing twenty years later?!?”
It’s been a quiet couple weeks with us on holidays and then me busy with a conference for most of last week but time to get back to blogging. And I’ve got a perfect video for Music Monday falling on St. Patrick’s Day – a montage of pics I made against two Celtic-Canadian songs from […]
Posted without further comment. (Er, other than to say you can fast forward to the end to see the conflict of those values in action…) (h/t to concerned community member who sent this to me. It’s actually senior RPL managers speaking off-camera at the end, not RPL security guards.)
Seven years ago, the mother of a young patron at the branch I was working at asked if her son could meet with me to learn more about being a librarian. We set a date to meet, had a great conversation and I thought that was the end of it. So I was surprised when […]
We didn’t see eye to eye on everything but I was very fortunate to have the first manager in libraries that I did as he was very experienced and knowledgeable (obviously people have to start somewhere but it can be a lot tougher if your manager is someone who’s newly hired or has only been […]
