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ALA AA

As I sit here at 3:39am on a Sunday night/Monday morning, drinking Corona by myself, I am reminded of the classmate who observed ALA could just as easily

My Most Overused Words in Library School

– basic/basically – hopefully – information– interesting– maybe– probably– usefulI can be a decent writer sometimes but man, those crutch words will kill a paper! On the other

Sunny Day

Hard to believe but sometimes I have no idea what to write.  So maybe I'll just do a stream-of-consciousness thing and see, uhm,…if I'm conscious.  Went over to

Mark Your Calendars RIGHT NOW!

Got some amazing, great, wicked cool news yesterday.  Art Slade, who won the Governor General's Award for Children's Literature for his novel, Dust in 2001, will be coming

A Few Things

I've posted a couple interesting links over at Librarian Activist so go check them out if you have a chance. I did my “Book Talk” presentation today in

Friday Fun Link – July 14, 2006 (The Fifteeners: The Earliest Printed Books)

“Incunabula or incunables are the very first examples of books, pamphlets, and broadsides printed with moveable type in Western Europe. They range from the very first examples of

Library School Bondage

Don't you love misleading titles for blog posts?  “Bonding With Your Classmates in Library School” would've probably been more accurate (but what fun would that be?) I wanted

Student Council Looking For Reps

There's an old saying in the non-profit world that “20% of your volunteers do 80% of the work.”  Now, many of the current 20%'ers are leaving the program

Southwest Ontario Playlist

I'm creating a playlist of songs that have some connection to SW Ontario, preferably by specific name checks of locations in the title of the song but also

Spirit of Librarianship Award – Call For Nominations (and A Mea Culpa)

Okay, the call for the Spirit of Librarianship Award for the summer semester has come out so I'll end my self-imposed ban on blogging about the award (I

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I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.

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