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Slogans For Library School

This is a list of potential slogans to put on our class t-shirts last semester – provided by classmates, other students, faculty, staff, alumni, library joke sites and more.  Some are pretty obvious, some are in-jokes that only our class would get.  I've put the winning choice in bold and her personal favourite in italic. […]

Friday Fun Link – Wikipedia 100 (Sept 29, 2006)

As September comes to a close, it’s a good time to point out that Wikipedia has an option to view the Top 100 viewed pages of every month. In September 2006, sex-related pages (List of Sexual Positions, Sex, Pornography) compete with popular media stories (Steve “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin, Dawson College Shootings) and more general topics […]

What I Wish "They" Had Told Me When I Started Out In Librarianship

Former CLA President, Wendy Newman, who is teaching “Advocacy and Libraries” this semester has kindly agreed to let me reprint this list.  The full version is a speech that she gave as U of T's Faculty of Information Science on March 22, 2005.  What I Wish “They” Had Told Me When I Started Out In […]

Let's All Go To The Grad Club

I'll be at the Grad Club tomorrow afternoon around 4pm to celebrate the impending birth of my child (okay, it's nine months away but any excuse to go for a drink, right?).  Actually, Quinn Dupont who was in the program but is currently on leave after being accepted for a Masters of Philosophy at the […]

Break Dance Baby

I was going to post this a couple weeks ago after seeing a link on Boing Boing (and as a way to drop a sly hint about what Shea and I suspected was pending).  But then I just put it in the “drafts” folder and forgot about it for some reason.  It's still pretty crazy […]

Too Tired To Think of a Title

My brain hurts.  Thirteen hour days with not one but two committee meetings suck.  That is all. 

Guess Who's Pregnant???

(Hint: It's the one on the left.  The other one is pregnant with beer, pizza and Cheetos…unfortunately.)  It's faint but the plus sign is there!

Family History

Does this handsome devil look familiar? Spent a few hours working on the family history project I have to do for my genealogy class last night.  Luckily, not one but two of my family members have done some research so that's a big help.  I'm still waiting for one to send me her stuff but […]

Word on the Street – Kitchener-Waterloo

Even though it rained off and on, Shea and I had a great day at the Kitchener-Waterloo's edition of the Word on the Street Festival today. Having been a board member of the Calgary edition for three years, I was looking forward to seeing what one of the other host cities for this national festival […]

Are You A FIS Blogger?

Are you a blogger? Do you have things to say about the profession (archives, museums, lis, etc . . . )? We're looking to compile a directory of active FIS bloggers, so why not send your details along and be included! OPML-based 'reading lists' will eventually be created so that members of the FIS community […]