After being skipped over in the most recent budget, Saskatchewan's public libraries are overjoyed that the Provincial Government announced yesterday that they will be putting $5 million towards the Single Integrated Library System project over the next few years. SILS will create a single card system for the entire province, something that was previously not […]
A Saskatchewan library director who defrauded his system of half a million dollars (and possibly as much as one million dollars though that wasn't proven) over a period of fourteen years via orders to a false US-based publisher that he'd set up himself was sentenced earlier this week to two years in prison less a […]
…you volunteered to write a government brief about the value of libraries in your province. What would you include? What approach would you take? In this hypothetical example, let's say the sucker volunteer already has a draft with some statistics and facts relevant to libraries, both in general (the one from the 2004 Florida study […]
…We All Scream For Ice Cream! It was a very eventful weekend for Pace – hitting the beach, encounters with local celebrities, visiting Wolseley – a nearby town that has a lake in the middle of it, watching mud derbies, taking his first ride on a tube behind a boat and more. Shea has her […]
Fifteen years ago, I would've been one of the teenagers driving through the mud or wrestling in it. Now I'm (mostly) happy to be a spectator to the insanity that is a small town mud derby. Here's a small sample…
A few years back, Canada ranked #1 in a UN survey of the best countries in the world to live in. That same year, a similar study ranked Saskatchewan as the best province in Canada to live in. So in honour of Canada Day (and with that sentiment in mind), I present the following list.Of […]
When Jessamyn West was here for SLA, this topic came up at the after-event gathering. I meant to post something about it at that time when the story was still somewhat fresh but never got to it, being as busy as I was with much more important matters like cute baby pictures and Flash-based Friday […]
No, not the catchy Feist song… Instead, “Saskaboom” was the name given to a feature that CBC's “The National” aired last night on Saskatchewan and our booming economy. The piece included a feature on Weyburn and the impact of the oil sector on the local economy. So if you want a taste of the city […]
Peak Oil is a theory that is increasingly relevant as the price of oil and gasoline continue to skyrocket. It was first proposed in the 1950's by an American geoscientist named M. King Hubbert who worked for Shell in Texas and correctly predicted that the supplies of oil were limited in the United States and […]
I drove nearly four hours round-trip today to do a five minute presentation at a tea in honour of a branch assistant who's been with our region for fifteen years……which makes me think that rural librarianship has some unique requirements you won't find in any other type of library……which makes me think that rural librarianship […]
