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 […]
Scholarly Journal Submission UpdateJust finished submitting the revised version of “Useless as Tits on a Bull: User Fees in Alberta Public Libraries” to Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Research and Theory. As I said before, it's been an extremely educational process, I got some great feedback and even if they don't decide to publish it […]
Below is an e-mail I just sent out to the department’s mailing list. I really *really* want a good crowd out for this event so I have a mission for you, faithful readers. I want you to subtly (and not so subtly) do everything you can to make sure we have a standing room […]
I'm taking “Advocacy and Library Issues” with former CLA President, Wendy Newman, as a distance course this term. This is my first ever distance course (I took French 101 as a distance course back in 1993 or so but was in the classroom in front of the instructor while the other students were at sites […]
I’ve had a couple chances to plug my blog in front of the new semester of students in the last couple weeks (and have had a few compliments on the content from people who’d checked it out – thank you very much!) But obviously not everybody’s going to take the time to browse or search […]
So I got hooked on the RockStar: Supernova TV show and tonight watched the finale where Toronto's Lukas Rossi became the second Canadian in a row to win on the show. I am proud to report that I was the one who created the intial page for him on Wikipedia and of course, this makes […]
With apologies to Billy Shakes for the paraphrase, I think this will be my “semester of disconnect” at FIMS. I've got two classes at Somerville House up in UGG-ville I've also got one evening class and one distance class so only need to be at the North Campus Building one day per week (in the […]
In addition to giving out free water, a free keychain with a combination compass, pen light and whistle, free candy necklaces and free frisbees, Weldon Library had a pretty cool idea to help promote the library for their Frosh Week display – producing on-the-spot postcards at their display just outside their front entrance. On a […]
I'm over at the school having worked on a couple of my first assignments for most of the night after walking Shea to work at 7pm. Now I'm just surfing around aimlessly because Shea's at work and if I go home, er, I'd probably just be doing the same thing. Here's something fun I came […]
