This isn’t exactly a “fun” link but this photo has been making the rounds of various library blogs (not sure where I first saw it so I can’t give credit unfortunately) Here’s the photo. Flickr has a few others plus some discussion you might want to check out as well.
Tomorrow marks the halfway point of the summer semester. I'll be at the Grad Club around noon to have a drink and to celebrate this milestone in “flimsy excuses to go for a drink.” Anybody who's reading this and around campus is invited to join me (and the crowds of soccer hooligans who are sure […]
Access Copyright's “Captain Copyright” campaign raised some hackles at CLA and had a few of us subverting the promotional materials that Access Copyright had at their booth by modifying the stickers they were giving out… For anyone who doesn't know, Captain Copyright is a character created by Access Copyright to promote copyright to students and […]
Bloglines Search Result for “Canadian Library Association” A couple favourites from the above list of results…Summary of Stephen and Avi Lewis Opening Keynote Presentation(via the Green Kangaroo) Dumb Things I Have Done So Far at CLA(via Inspyration) Why The CLA Should Have Their 2010 Conference in Whitehorse(via Laurie the Librarian) …and the CLA conference in […]
Am I ever going to do a post where I'm happy about something instead of suggesting how to change and improve it? (Probably not…) Obviously these suggestions come heavily from the perspective of a student and a first-time CLA attendee. Twelve Ways To Improve The CLA Conference1. Don't charge students to attend 2. Don't have […]
Here's the report that a couple classmates sent to our class listserv with their take on the CLA conference… —The good:The 2 best presentations we saw were on Thursday, one on recruitment in Academic Libraries, and the other was a debate on whether we as librarians have made ourselves obsolete over the past decade. The […]
Shea had the camera while being a tourist (and we didn't think to take our old-fashioned film camera which still needs to have its current roll finished) so I didn't take as many shots at CLA as I normally would have. Here are some though… A couple from the Thursday night pub crawl… Three previous […]
A Flickr photoset of the things a library volunteer finds on the book cart or stuffed in books in the prison where they volunteer: Jail finds – a photoset on Flickr (via Librarian.net)
Just back from the CLA conference (it officially ended up Saturday but we stayed an extra day to do some sightseeing and so we'd have a full day to drive home instead of rushing on Saturday.) Turns out this was a wise decision as I'll explain later… Saturday, I was again up very early and […]
I'm actually going to post an entry on the day I'm writing about if you can believe it! Up early and over to hotel but the shuttle bus was full so I had to wait for the 9:20am one, missing half of the session I wanted to attend – “Public Library Statistics Across Canada” which […]
