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July 19 = Busiest Day of the Year

July 19 is shaping up to be the busiest day of the year for those of us who enjoy the extracurricular activities that library school offers.  Noon –

"'Hot Shot City', which is particularly good"

The Amazon.com Reviews of a David Hasselhoff “Best of” album which is a special import from…you guessed it, Germany.  Perhaps the funniest thing I've read all year.  (via

A Weekend of Athletics (Other People) and Socializing (Me)

This weekend was probably my busiest social weekend since getting to London… Friday night, we went to Christina's party as I believe I already mentioned.  The athletics of

One Red Paper Clip = A House in Saskatchewan

A 26 year old guy from Montreal has managed to “trade up” from a single red paper clip to his end goal of a house which, in the

A Week of Learning at FIMS

Here's a sample overview of some highlights for a random week at FIMS…MondayI don't have class on Monday which means it's technically the day that I work on

Friday Fun Link – July 7, 2006 (Largest Cities Throughout History)

One of the great things about doing a weekly fun link targetted at librarians is that I can basically link to anything interesting I find since it’s all

Five Things That Make Me Insanely Happy

Stealing a meme from my mentee's blog:Name five things that make you insanely happy for absolutely no fathomable reason: 1. Sticky notes (and office supply stores in general)2.

Lunch Bucket/Film Series Double-Header

Our first Lunch Bucket speaker of the summer will be on Wednesday July 19 from 12-1pm.  Jean McKay is a local author and creative writing instructor who has

A Very Efffective Use of PowerPoint

This was the second slide in a presentation that Linda Schneider of the FIMS Graduate Resource Centre gave to our “Collections Development” course back in early June.  She

Randomness (Happy Canada Day & Fourth of July)

How Hot Is It In Ontario Right Now?“It's hotter than a bull's balls when the summer stalls” as we say out west.  (Actually we don't say this out

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