Canada’s Freedom to Read Week begins today and continues until February 28. As I did last year and the year before, I’m planning to do a week long series of posts on current happenings and issues around this topic.I’m not sure if he planned it to coincide with FTRW or not but a colleague at RPL posted […]
A couple short clips that go together…
I did a “Seven Things You Don't Know About Me” mini-meme but I haven't succumbed to the pressure to do the full “25 Things” meme that's going around. Apparently neither has this guy…And you know a meme has jumped the shark when Time magazine is weighing in with their own snark. So there's no way […]
I was happy to see that after a long absence, the Sask Blogs aggregator is back up and running, better than ever. I was perusing it last night and happened upon a post on “Giant Political Mouse“, a lefty web site that focuses mostly on Saskatchewan politics. This post mentioned that the provincial NDP leadership […]
(with the relevant Mark Zuckerberg apology excerpt in italics…)1. Their launch of Newsfeed in 2006 which they implement, then backtrack then re-implement it with tighter privacy controls available.“We know that many of you are not immediate fans, and have found them [NewsFeed and Mini-NewsFeed] overwhelming and cluttered. Other people are concerned that non-friends can see […]
You don't look a day over 29 (okay, maybe one day over 29! )
It's Family Day here in Sask and elsewhere across Canada so I thought I'd post the following video in honour of the day. It's the video slideshow version of a photo book that we made for the grandparents at Christmas set to a nice little White Stripes song.
Last May for Mother's Day I set up a Kiva account for Shea from Pace and put $100 in it. Now almost a year later, our initial loans were 75% repaid. After watching the following video we decided to immediately re-loan that money rather than waiting for it all to be paid back. Here is […]
One of our branch librarians did a three-week study in her location to record the type and variety of reference questions her staff received. With her permission, I've reprinted the list her staff compiled below. The list of questions includes the criteria she gave her staff as to what should be recorded.I think this list […]
Before the Internet, I probably would not have had access to Christopher Walken's techniques for roasting a chicken. My life is better for having this knowledge…
