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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
(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 […]
[2007-05-06 – MetaFilter had a great post with lots of interview related resources and discussion.] I said I wouldn't talk about my job much on this blog but I thought a bit about the various interviews I went through to get to this point in a more general manner might be a good topic, especially […]
I've had this happen a couple times in the past few weeks so thought I'd mention it. If you add someone on Facebook who has the “Auto Reply” function on their e-mail program enabled, the “Jason Hammond has added you” message gets sent back and flows right through Facebook to your e-mail in-box thus revealing […]
Well, my first week of work is over (nice to start on a week with a stat holiday!) and as I dig into my bag of bookmarks for something relevant to post on a day where I'm burned out after a day that started early, included a lot of miles on the road, finished with […]
I can't believe it's been a year since I won the Spirit of Librarianship Award! And now with the self-serving comment out of the way, let's get to the people who really deserve the attention… (I'll update the SoL page when the winner is announced. If anybody has a digital camera, can you take pictures […]
Well, after four interviews, three months of waiting, two offers, and one really big decision, I have officially accepted an 18-month full-time temporary contract with Southeast Regional Library in Weyburn, an hour south of Regina. The other offer was a full-time permanent position with the Provincial Library and it had a very strong appeal as […]
Here's something for everbody back at FIMS as the semester comes to a close… (via Reddit)
