Category: Saskatchewan

How Many Canadian Librarians Have A Small Place In History? I Met One Today.

Today was our semi-annual branch librarian's workshop where we hold a day-long series of presentations related to librarianship and our library system specifically.  It went off fairly well

Comparing Rural and Urban Libraries – A Day in the Life of a Librarian Who Lives In Both Worlds

One of our branch librarians also works for Regina Public Library. She wrote this article comparing and contrasting the two types of libraries for the Sask Library Association

The Reason I'm A Librarian?

Each year, our library system gives out four awards to our branches – one for Service, one for Programming, one for Branch Development and one for Branch of

Home For Dinner: A Saskatchewan Shopping List

Amy Jo Ehman and her husband recently spent a whole year eating nothing but Saskatchewan-produced foods.  Her year-long experiment is over but she's continued to buy (mostly) from

Road Stats

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I've been on the road for the past two months doing computer and Internet training at our

Regina – The City That Rhymes With Fun (and Cold and Casino)

Skip forward to 3:20 on this video to see what I'm talking about…

Ring Those Phones 2008!

You know you've been blogging for a long time when you can do “flashback” posts.Here's one from last year about the record-setting take ($5 million plus) of the

Big Beaver

Like many places, Saskatchewan has numerous towns with unique names – for example, Moose Jaw, Elbow, Eyebrow, Climax (which is just down the road from Conquest)!  Even my

Automated Genealogy

Just the other day, I was thinking to myself “with all the social networking sites out there, when is somebody going to design an online genealogy site that

Vocabulary Question

Is there a word for “expected volunteering”?  I see this all the time in the small towns I visit where the locals are expected to volunteer for various

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