LISNews.org names The Top Ten LIS Stories of 2006 (via Stephen’s Lighthouse) The list is a bit tech-heavy and a bit US-centric but otherwise, provides a good overview of the year in libraryland. (That's kind of a goofy phrase but since a prof used it recently, I've started using it too!)I didn't do this when […]
“Librarians are extremely liberal and, thanks to our tax dollars, insulated from their consumers' preferences.” The National Post looks at the bias against conservative books in bookstores and public libraries in an article titled “Ignoring Canada's Conservative Readers”. (Thanks to Christina W. for the tip!) (By the way, the second last book I read […]
I don't know about you but when I come to the end of something – a job, schooling, a vacation or whatever – I start noticing how things tend to come full circle. Another example of this I noticed recently is that the year started with a federal election at the end of January that […]
Just a reminder that if you like reading this site (or if you don't and want something with more 100% library-related content with zero tangents about baby poop, Fred Eaglesmith and Saskatchewan), you might also want to boomark LibrarianActivist.org (or add it to your RSS reader.) Sabina's back in radio contact after being without Internet […]
This Magazine’s current issue has a cover story on “40 Ideas We Need Know” which has many prominent thinkers contributing their thoughts on “a big idea whose time has come.” Copyright reform, the Hipster PDA (which I use myself – who knew I was hip?) and “a safe place to pee” is just a small […]
Our genealogy class got out early today so that people could either work on assignments, do research or come down to LPL to vist the “London Room”, the library's local history room. I'd seen the room briefly during our LPL tour in Public Libraries class but had a couple hours to kill before I had […]
I don't think I'll sign up but I thought this was a pretty cool idea… Alternative Spring Breaks 2007 : “Be the Change…”Instead of hitting the beach, you (Western students) have the chance to participate in an intensive, hands-on service project during Reading Week 2007, organized by The Centre for New Students and Western Residence […]
Just in time for the US mid-term elections next week, this site (which unfortunately is best viewed in Internet Explorer) creates a tag cloud of the most-used phrases in every President’s State of the Union address going back to 1776. Phrases are shown in terms of popularity, frequency and trends. Use the slider at the […]
The Health Policy Initiative at Western is bringing Roy Romanow to campus for a public lecture. Romanow will speak on What Kind of Society Do We Want?: Social Values and the Health and Well-Being of Canadians. The talk takes place on Friday, October 27 at 3 p.m. in the Arthur & Sonia Labatt Health Sciences […]
Man, when I was a kid and Question Period came on, I used to practically cry. But this afternoon, I'm watching Michael Ignatieff spar with Bob Rae (they were roommates in college), watching Scott Brison (one of Canada's few openly gay MP's) say that if he didn't support gay marriage, it would cause a “gay […]
