I don't talk a lot about my work on this blog but I thought I'd discuss one of my favourite activities that I do – approving the purchase of books that patrons have requested – to celebrate my three month anniversary in this position which is tomorrow. In my library system, this is known as […]
A MetaFilter thread discussing an essay entitled “Viewing American Class Divisions Through MySpace and Facebook” leads to this interesting nugget: Toronto has the most Facebook members of any city in the world (that's absolute “most”, not even per capita. This means TO outranks much larger cities including New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Canada has […]
This will be a bit sparse to start but I thought I'd do a post of FIMS classes that have related blogs. If you know of any other course blogs (or other related online materials – wikis, etc.) that are beyond the FIMS intranet, please let me know via a comment or e-mail.LIS746 – Collection […]
Bright EyesBuddyCutie PieLittle ManMonkeyMusclesOscarPace ManPacerPacey (even though I said I don't like this one, it slips out sometimes!)PesoPoopyShakeySmileySonny BoyStinkySunshineSweetheartTadpole …and occasionally, the odd name you don't want to record on a blog in case he writes a book someday!
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 […]
I can't remember if I ever mentioned it on this blog (probably knowing me) but I'm currently volunteering on the web site redesign task force of the Canadian Library Association. For tomorrow's telefconference, everybody was asked to submit a link to a web site whose navigation they thought worked well. Some people did, others simply […]
We were talking about having multiple children today at coffee break (“I think Shea and I want to survive this one before we decide that” was my take) and a co-worker mentioned this e-mail which she forwarded to me. Too true. The Birth Order of Children Your Clothes 1st baby: You begin wearing maternity clothes […]
Just whipped home to pick up a few things, fill up the car, charge the cell phone (we have Shea's mom's since that's one piece of techno-geekery that hasn't engulfed me yet) and so on. It's only been a couple days but I've been trying to come up with an analogy for what parenthood is […]
LibrarianActivist has highlighted a couple sites in the past that offer free e-book downloads but this page has a comprehensive list of all the options online for getting free e-books and tree-books. (I love that the title of the post where I saw it on MetaFilter is “The Best Place To Get Free Books” and […]
Driving into pre-natal class tonight, I realised that we've spent more money commuting to the class in the last few weeks than we did actually registering for the class. Gasoline is still one of the cheapest liquids available for purchase but yet another recent jump in Regina (to $1.17 a litre I think) means that […]
