Category Archives: List

Friday Fun Link – 10 Reasons Librarians Should Use Ask.com Instead of Google (July 27, 2007)

The title says it all. (Also I’m in a bit of a pinch for time this week as I’m heading to a lake soon and will be sans Internet for a day or two.)

Around the Horn: Highlights From Other Blogs I Read

Similar to my FFL last week, Michelle L. links to another article slamming the impact of the Potter books. If you're going to buy her book, don't buy it for half price at a supermarket. As an example of a world gone mad, you couldn't do much better than this: a writer whose sales have […]

My Birthday By The Numbers

34 – age I turned today 25 – age someone recently told me I was really at 4 – Number of gifts Pace got from Shea today 2 – Number of gifts I got from Shea today2 – Number of times Pace almost peed on me1 – Number of times Pace peed in his own […]

Show Pile

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 […]

Toronto Is The Facebook Capital of the World

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 […]

FIMS Course Blogs

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 […]

On His Five Week Birthday, A Sampling of Things We've Called Pace During That Time…

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!

Friday Fun Link – Does Internet Filtering Work? (June 22, 2007)

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 […]

Good Web Sites About…Designing Web Sites

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 […]

The Birth Order of Children

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 […]