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LibrarianGear Is Back

Canuck Librarian recently posted that the Librarian Gear store is back in operation as well as listing a couple other places to get library-related swag.  I'd also add

Let's say that…

…you volunteered to write a government brief about the value of libraries in your province.  What would you include?  What approach would you take?  In this hypothetical example,

Slow Reading: The Book

I was very happy to hear that my FIMS classmate, John Miedema, will be having a book coming out later this year.  I'm also proud to say I

Chris Dixon Memorial Scholarship – Update

I wrote about this when it was first announced.  Below is the latest update about the scholarship in memory of FIMS PhD student, Chris Dixon.  If you haven't

Where You Sit in A Classroom and What It Says About You

I don't do a lot of posts that earn the “libraryschool” tag anymore but this one seems appropriate.  I was both a “back row” and an “against the

"[We] discussed who had learned to drive on a tractor [answer: almost everyone, including me]"

Well, the conference is over for another year!  We finished off the joint SLA-MLA conference with a great social event at the Cathedral Village Free House where I

Last Call For Library Student Journal Emerging Leaders Issue

Amy Buckland (who was recently named a 2008 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker”) has passed along the following notice which is also a great opportunity to highlight some

Chris Dixon Memorial Scholarship (and some thoughts on a random death in the oil patch)

It was an incredible shock to hear of the passing of LIS PhD student, Chris Dixon, last summer.  (In a freaky coincidence, this happened right in the middle

Automated Genealogy

Just the other day, I was thinking to myself “with all the social networking sites out there, when is somebody going to design an online genealogy site that

Spirit of Librarianship Fall 2007 – Nominees and Winners

I've had the list of Fall 2007 Spirit of Librarianship nominees sitting in my e-mail in-box for over a month but finally got around to updating my Spirit

About Head Tale

I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.

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