Just a couple shots from our KidLit class trip to Toronto last Friday. I don't know how the picture of JK Rowling's signature at the Osbourne Collection got on my digital camera because you're not allowed to take photos there! And a bonus image: the best use for an air conditioner…
Instead of taking a fifth class, I'm doing an independent study this summer on the relationship between book publishers and public libraries in Canada. Last night I finished the first section, a Literature Search of articles, books, web sites and other materials that dealt with this topic and as I talked about in an earlier […]
This Friday, our Children's Literature class is going on a field trip to Toronto. First, we're going to visit The Osborne Collection which is a public collection of rare children's books and which includes two other collections – the Lillian H. Smith Collection and the Canadiana Collection. The site features info about their current exhibit […]
One of my classmates in 525 – Managing Internet Information observed on the blog he had to set-up for a class assignment that his “initial impression of Blogging was that most contributors suffer from Blogorrhea. That is, an inability to control the output.” I admit that I suffer from a case of that disease. But […]
The Acting Associate Dean, Lynne McKechnie, sat down with members of the Student Council and a few interested students last Wednesday to discuss any and all issues with the program. It was a very good discussion and a lot of material was covered in the hour and a bit that the meeting lasted. As well, […]
I'm re-posting this notice as I know all of us get a lot of e-mail and sometimes gloss over them or ignore them completely. So I'm hoping that seeing it here might catch somebody's attention a bit more than it might otherwise by just arriving in their in-box. The work that the Peer Mentorship Committee […]
Ten Books To Feed The Imagination – includes the usual suspects such as Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling but a couple surprises as well. (via The Guardian) Classmate of the Day: I reminded Holly that she had a “birthday” today when a group of us sent for supper this evening which ended up getting us […]
Had our first 506 – Management course this morning and it was actually pretty good. I had this fear that some Ivey-esque (that's the name of the business school here – some rich dude “bought” the naming right on it. I wonder who'd buy the naming rights to FIMS? The JK Rowling School of Library […]
Concerts Are FunWent a bit crazy last night and bought tickets to both Bright Eyes (June) and Wilco (July), both at the Centennial Hall in London. Two of my favourite bands within a month – why not? Music Is PoliticalOne of (maybe the only) good thing about George Bush being in power in the US […]
…people use it. It seems like common sense but sometimes organizations focus so much on controlling how the listserv is used that they neglect to encourage people to actually use it. By the way, the CLA conference is coming up next month in Ottawa and a bunch of people at school are planning to attend. […]
