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Friday Fun Link – Dubai Fireworks (Full)

I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that my highest mark for a presentation in library school was one I did that was actually in a journalism class. My presentation was about online video and how it allows you to transcend both space and time in a way that other previous media (television, radio, etc.) couldn’t. This video from […]

¶ Posted 04 January 2019 § PopCulture § Randomness § Travel § UK § Video ‡ Comments (0) °

Some Thoughts on the Changing Nature of Intellectual Freedom In Librarianship (Maybe?), The “Neutrality” Thing, and How I Sometimes Feel Like My Grandpa Missing The Boat on Elvis

So I recently got tagged on Twitter by a librarian colleague in Saskatoon (who is both a Mover and a Shaker!) asking if I (and a few other online librarian-types) had any thoughts on the changing view of intellectual freedom within the profession, especially in light of wider changes in society which I took to […]

¶ Posted 09 December 2018 § Censorship § Library § News § Politics § PopCulture § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, freedomtoreadweek, language, philosophy

Throwback Thursday – A Different Kind of Church (April 2007)

In my first librarian job, my boss and I had the opportunity to oversee the move of a crowded small town library into a soon-to-be-vacated nearby church. This photo was during our first visit to the church to see if it would be a workable space once all the pews and other church holdings were […]

¶ Posted 15 November 2018 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § Saskatchewan § SecularSunday § ThrowbackThursday § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: atheism, economics, education, saskatchewan

Thanksgiving Closing Hours for Canadian Public Libraries

A few years back, I did a post where I researched the closing times for various Canadian libraries on Christmas Eve day. Of course Christmas Eve is not an “official” stat holiday but it’s still a day that many workplaces (not just libraries) recognize as a slow time and/or a good time to close early […]

¶ Posted 08 October 2018 § Canada § Jobs § Library § List § Saskatchewan § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, economics, holiday, ontario, orgdevl, saskatchewan

#yqr Toilet A Top Tourist Attraction

There was a time, shortly after I graduated from my MLIS program, where I seriously thought about putting together a presentation about the importance of the public washrooms in libraries – from making the entire library as a welcoming space for the widest variety of people to being a great way to promote programs to […]

¶ Posted 13 June 2018 § Humour § Library § MemoryLane § News § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: economics, education, health, saskatchewan, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Only Ontario Vote (November 2006) #ElectionDay #OntarioVotes2018 #onpooli

With the Ontario provincial election happening today, I’m reminded of the time I unexpectedly got to vote in that province. It was while I was at Western completing my Master’s of Library Science degree and it happened during a federal byelection in London North-Centre which featured Elizabeth May parachuting in to try to win the […]

¶ Posted 07 June 2018 § MemoryLane § News § Politics § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, history, ontario

Music Monday – “Pushed around and kicked around/Always a lonely boy/You were the one that they’d talk about around town as they put you down”

I had the day off so decided to pop out to Congress at the U of R. It was a great day going through the Exhibitors’ Hall catching up with some publishers I knew from my days in that world, meeting some new publishers, talking to authors and so on. Since I rarely get out […]