I posted an anecdote about Kurt Vonnegut from author Dave Margoshes a couple entries back. In the course of writing to ask permission to do this, I also took the opportunity to ask Dave, who also acts as the food critic with the local Prairie Dog weekly newspaper, if he’d be willing to give me […]
Britain’s biggest specialist book chain, Waterstone’s, asked its 5,000 staff to name their favourite five books written since 1982, the date Waterstone’s opened its first store. The list features the cream, both male and female, of the modern international literary world of the last quarter of a century – from Umberto Eco and Bill Bryson […]
I'm looking for fun slogans of the type a person might, for example, print out and post on the wall at their new library job. They don't necessarily have to be directly related to libraries or librarians but should capture the (to coin a phrase) “spirit of librarianship”.Here's a few I have so far…“Be The […]
[2007-05-06 – MetaFilter had a great post with lots of interview related resources and discussion.] I said I wouldn't talk about my job much on this blog but I thought a bit about the various interviews I went through to get to this point in a more general manner might be a good topic, especially […]
I used the following list when I did up a “mini-yearbook” for our 10 year high school reunion and came across it recently in a new Facebook group dedicated to the topic. So I thought I'd re-post it here. You Know You're From A Small Town When… 1. You can name everyone you graduated with. […]
This is a post I started near the end of library school and meant to post during my furious last week of longish, library school-related entries. But I never got it finished so I thought it would make a good 500th post for this blog instead. Yep, I’ve been at it just over a year […]
Your IQ = 130.Here are my scores. Language 11/12Memory 5/6Logic 12/12Visual Memory 5/6Math 10/12Perception 9/12Some random thoughts (may contain spoilers so why not do the quiz then come back to finish reading if you haven't already?)…CBC Television : Test the Nation – I know it's just for fun but any IQ test that asks me […]
I know that everybody who reads this blog doesn't necessarily read all of the same blogs that I do. So every once in awhile, I like to highlight some of the great entries I've found elsewhere. For example, Meshell had a great post on what exactly a blog is, why people do it and a […]
Last night, while thinking about the vast publishing industry and the fact that you could never read even a fraction of the books published each year, even in a lifetime of reading, I wondered “Are there any books that you could be sure that almost every single person who is a reader has read?” I […]
I'm writing an article on Facebook for Feliciter and have spent quite a bit of time on the site recently (er, even more than usual ) so I thought I'd update my list of easy ways to improve Facebook.1. Let users see the list of friend requests that have been sent but not accepted yet […]
