Did you know that the results of the official, university sanctioned end-of-term feedback sessions are kept on record in the GRC? I did an informal survey recently and not one person out of the dozen or so I asked knew this – not even the ones I was sure would should know about it. […]
Went to week two of Student Council trivia and once again, came out on top in the first round then promptly hit bust for the next two rounds. I'm hoping my mega-mentee from last term follows through on her promise to keep regular ongoing cumulative stats on her blog (or at least update it more […]
If you haven't come across the book, “Revolting Librarians Redux” yet, you really owe it to yourself to pick up a copy. It's got a huge range of essays (plus poems, cartoons and more) on all manner of library-related topics. If nothing else, the Appendix linking different types of librarians to their star signs is […]
Here is a list of Firefox extensions I have installed on my computer: DOM Inspector – inspect web page information FoxyTunes – allows you to control multimedia functions within your browser GooglePreview – shows screenshots along with Google searches MetaFilthy – tracks which threads you've read on MetaFilter ColourfulTabs – makes tabs more readable SearchEngineOrdering […]
The new online library student journal (creatively called “Library Student Journal”) has an article about how libraries currently serve babies. (Resists urge to make Jonathan Swift joke.) I guess one way to solve the problem of “baby” entries versus “library” entries on this blog is to combine the two topics!And what's my record for blog […]
This is a list of potential slogans to put on our class t-shirts last semester – provided by classmates, other students, faculty, staff, alumni, library joke sites and more. Some are pretty obvious, some are in-jokes that only our class would get. I've put the winning choice in bold and her personal favourite in italic. […]
As September comes to a close, it’s a good time to point out that Wikipedia has an option to view the Top 100 viewed pages of every month. In September 2006, sex-related pages (List of Sexual Positions, Sex, Pornography) compete with popular media stories (Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, Dawson College Shootings) and more general topics […]
Former CLA President, Wendy Newman, who is teaching “Advocacy and Libraries” this semester has kindly agreed to let me reprint this list. The full version is a speech that she gave as U of T's Faculty of Information Science on March 22, 2005. What I Wish “They” Had Told Me When I Started Out In […]
I'll be at the Grad Club tomorrow afternoon around 4pm to celebrate the impending birth of my child (okay, it's nine months away but any excuse to go for a drink, right?). Actually, Quinn Dupont who was in the program but is currently on leave after being accepted for a Masters of Philosophy at the […]
Are you a blogger? Do you have things to say about the profession (archives, museums, lis, etc . . . )? We're looking to compile a directory of active FIS bloggers, so why not send your details along and be included! OPML-based 'reading lists' will eventually be created so that members of the FIS community […]
