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Boy Steals Books, Librarian Changes Boy's Life

In my quest to have a designated theme for every day of the week, maybe I should start a “Sappy Sunday” one if I keep finding touching articles

Saturday Snap – Rider Nation (November 7, 2009)

Tonight, the Riders clinched the CFL's Western Division for the first time in thirty-three years.  (We won't spend time contemplating this level of futility in what has long

Friday Fun Link – Library Trivia (November 6, 2009)

I helped coordinate/facilitate/organize a gathering of RPL's professional librarian staff this afternoon.  In the course of planning the un-agenda for this session, one of the ideas I came

A Couple R.E.M. Links

The Pop Songs blog was set-up for the author to do an analysis of every song in the R.E.M. catalogue.  This led to Michael Stipe himself contacting the

AskMetafilter – One of My "Favourite" Sites

AskMetaFilter has a page which lists their all-time most “Favourited” questions (warning: do not click unless you have a  LOT of time to waste!)  Interesting that the most

What Technology Most Blows Your Mind?

A fun discussion on Reddit, even with 85% of the answers being computers, cell phones or airplanes. 😉“Reaching the Moon was certainly a highlight for our civilization, but

Music Monday – "You coulda had a heart of gold/But I don't think you even knew you had one/I don't think you were ever told."

This song always reminds me of one of my all-time Top Ten favourite movies “Stand By Me” – a young middle class type with an artistic bent writes

Whoo-hoo, I'm A College Man!

From the “How Dumb Am I?” files:  A couple of my toes have been a greyish shade of blue since I got my cast on a couple weeks

Saturday Snap – My Halloween Costume = Weston Dressler

Although his was the right fibula which is even worse!  I've been on crutches for the past two weeks so we decided to just hit a couple local

SirsiDynix Position Paper on Open Source and Stephen Abram's Response

The big scandals in libraries tend to happen out in front – somebody looking at porn, somebody else wants to censor a book, maybe a group trying to

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