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 […]
Went to the Librarians Without Borders karaoke fundraiser tonight and other than a broken air conditioning system at the venue, it was a very fun (and very sweaty) night. LWB invited the students in journalism school and so a bunch of them came out which provided my first real chance to meet many of them […]
Instant MessagingI am back on instant messaging. After using IM quite a bit in the heyday of ICQ, I got away from it for a variety of reasons (no friends mainly ) but after being asked for my MSN info by a colleague today (and also attempting to do a virtual reference exercise last week […]
I'm creating a playlist of songs that have some connection to SW Ontario, preferably by specific name checks of locations in the title of the song but also by subject matter, artist residency or other similar factors. Here's what I've got so far…“Linda, Put the Coffee On” – Ray Materick “Tillsonburg” – Stompin' Tom Connors“Wreck […]
Turn around twice and after two days in Toronto, I'm off to Ottawa for the Canadian Library Association conference. I'm taking my laptop but not sure what the Internet situation will be like where we're staying so new blog posts may be sporadic until next week. The timing couldn't have been better – the one […]
Back from a couple days at Book Expo Canada in Toronto and here are some random thoughts… – if you've never been, how the Book Expo trade show works is basically you walk around a huge trade show (200+ exhibitors?) and all the publishers and other writing organizations have booths promoting their books, authors and […]
I heard the audio version of this a few months ago but someone went and made a video to accompany it. Brilliant!
This Friday, our Children's Literature class is going on a field trip to Toronto. First, we're going to visit The Osborne Collection which is a public collection of rare children's books and which includes two other collections – the Lillian H. Smith Collection and the Canadiana Collection. The site features info about their current exhibit […]
This catalogue of books that have been nominated or won Saskatchewan Book Awards was one of the last projects I worked on before I came to library school. It was a Centennial project with a committee comprised of reps from the Sask Book Awards, Sask Writers Guild, Sask Library Association, Sask Publishers Group and Sask […]
Went to the Hawksley Workman show tonight (early show – I think London is the only place on the current tour that got two shows because of high demand. ) I might do a full review later but I'll just say that Hawksley Workman is awesome in concert and if you've never seen him before, […]
