This physics based Flash game is probably the single most fun thing I've found on the Internet in a long time. Very addictive! (via MetaFilter which has some ideas on what you should build – catapult anyone? – and I noticed it was also posted on Reddit)
I've had the list of Fall 2007 Spirit of Librarianship nominees sitting in my e-mail in-box for over a month but finally got around to updating my Spirit of Librarianship page last night. If you click through to the nominees page, you'll see that the SoL organizers added another new innovation last semester by choosing […]
Please find below direct access to a one page web survey produced by the Advisory Committee on Intellectual Freedom. This second annual survey is intended to help the Committee develop documentation about challenged resources and policies in Canadian libraries in the 21stcentury. This initiative supports Canada's Book and Periodical Council's (BPC) Freedom to Read campaign […]
(via MetaFilter which leads to FongSongs)
One of my favourite professors from FIMS, Sam Trosow, has co-authored a new book entitled “Canadian Copyright: A Citizen's Guide“. The page I link to is the home page of the other co-author and has a few excerpts. This site has a brief summary and links to where you can buy the book.
I've had a few different jobs in my life. One of my favourites was my college summer job where I visited various small towns around Saskatchewan as a traveling cable TV salesman. (Yes, I know a “vacuum cleaner salesman” joke just popped in your head. Don't bother – I've heard it.)But this job was different […]
I thought I wrote about Wikia when I first heard about it but couldn't find anything via my blog search engine. So I guess this will be my first mention of it here. Here's a link to the new search engine……and here's some more background information.
Radiohead are usually extremely innovative with any multimedia products they put out – from videos to concert films to web sites (although the current version is quite traditional compared to what they've done in the past.) That makes this hour long video they recently released of them performing all the songs from “In Rainbows” in […]
Kathleen DeLong, a librarian at the University of Alberta, is conducting a survey on the engagement of new library professionals in leadership roles and activities as part of her LIS PhD. If you're a recently hired librarian (within the last five years), why not take a few minutes to help her out by filling out […]
