Stars With One Name: Cher, Madonna and…Fred? Performer line-up for the weekend Our campsite The unofficial “best campsite” award We were warned about the “Missisauga Rattlers” when we set-up our campsite but didn't realise they were being wrangled on stage as well. Washboard Hank is a very…unique (?)…musician. Canadian folk legend, Willie P. Bennett Man […]
My wife was recently back in Saskatchewan to visit her parents and during her time there, she got her mom's library card number and PIN number so that she could put books on hold for her over the Net. That's what Shea was doing last night and one of us (I won't say who ) […]
The Summer 2006 Spirit of Librarianship winner was announced at the Destressor on Wednesday afternoon. Bruce Fyfe came out on top in a very close race. It was a great event with a number of nice touches – they gathered all the nominees on the stage to be acknowledged before making the announcement, all nominees […]
Christina and I are planning to have a pool party on Friday afternoon to celebrate the end of the semester and one of the last chances for many of us to spend time together before some of us go off to co-op placements or off to the real world. We're planning to start at 2pm […]
This book showed up in my mailbox at school the other day courtesy “The Book Fairy”. Can you imagine why a library in our nation's capital would ever get rid of such a treasure? Me either. It's a limited edition too – this copy is #260 of 1000. Lots of interesting trivia, colour photos and […]
See below for some photos from my adventures on Tuesday night. I also added one from Wednesday's karaoke session to the “Librarian Idol” entry. The photo I added is sort of bittersweet – Shea has our digital camera in Saskatchewan so I dug out my old film camera to take with me to karaoke. It […]
Someone on the 501 mailing list forwarded this Unshelved comic strip to me…
Flickr has a group dedicated to Librarian Trading Cards. You can create your own (and do lots of other cool things) with FD's Flickr tools.Here's mine:
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 other people alluded to in the title of this post were the group of crazy buggers who played bocce ball in the dark… …while I held […]
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 joked about using my intellectual property without permission so now I get to do the same to her! As I blog about strippers and porn and […]
