This video was created for library staff in service day at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana. Set to Madonna’s “Ray of Light,” and inspired by the video of the song, this video details a day in the life of a thriving public library system, highlighting the faces and places that […]
There's a tradition at small town weddings that, at the end of the night, a bunch of the young guys will buy a table full of $1 drinks just before the bar closes down to take advantage of the cheap alcohol. That was the thought in my head at the end of the SOGS Mixer […]
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Posted 06 October 2006
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Here is a list of Firefox extensions I have installed on my computer: DOM Inspector – inspect web page information FoxyTunes – allows you to control multimedia functions within your browser GooglePreview – shows screenshots along with Google searches MetaFilthy – tracks which threads you've read on MetaFilter ColourfulTabs – makes tabs more readable SearchEngineOrdering […]
I hope the formatting for this comes out okay. I'm cutting and pasting from a Word doc. Thanks to Lynda Kirkham over at LPL for passing these along to me! London Public Library – Ontario Public Library Week – Libraries: The World at your Fingertips Date Event Details October 14 Computer vs. the Librarian 2:00-4:00 […]
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Posted 04 October 2006
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Happy Canadian Library Month! From CLA:The Canadian Library Association (CLA) is pleased to announce that October has been designated as Canadian Library Month! The idea for a month dedicated to library and information services in Canada was developed by library partners from across the country to help raise public awareness of the valuable role that […]
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Posted 04 October 2006
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So we were doing our tour of the LPL today and I was formulating an updated “Things I Like/Don't Like About LPL” post in my head all afternoon. But then Linda introduced me to the Coordinator of Children's and Youth Services so I could give my spiel about about Art Slade coming to FIMS on […]
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Posted 03 October 2006
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The new online library student journal (creatively called “Library Student Journal”) has an article about how libraries currently serve babies. (Resists urge to make Jonathan Swift joke.) I guess one way to solve the problem of “baby” entries versus “library” entries on this blog is to combine the two topics!And what's my record for blog […]
My hometown was featured in a special advertising supplement in the Regina Leader Post newspaper recently. Check it out for a taste of life in a small prairie town.
Vote Jim Holmes, executive member of the Friends of the RPL, for mayor of Regina. A friend of mine in Regina has been doing a great job of tracking some of the improprieties of current mayor, Pat Fiasco Fiacco on the “Politics 'n' Poetry” blog (and yes, those two things do go together and should […]
The vast majority of people I talk to who have recently started blogs all seem to say the same thing: “I don't really like blogs but I decided to give it a shot.” This instinctive reaction against blogs is interesting – why is there a natural resistance to blogs? (Going way back to entry one […]
