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Canadian Library Association

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 […]

Posted 13 June 2006 § Library § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Book Expo Canada 2006 – The Summary

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 […]

Posted 13 June 2006 § Main Page § Photo § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Book Expo Canada

I'm off to Book Expo Canada on Sunday and Monday.  I went once before in 1999 or 2000 and it was a blast – Jack Stoddart marched an elephant through the trade show area as a publicity stunt, I got my photo with what was, at the time, the world's largest book, I got a […]

Posted 11 June 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

CLA Ride Share?

For anyone who doesn't know how they're getting to the CLA conference in Ottawa next week, Shea did some research tonight and found that we can rent a mid-sized car (something like a Grand Am) for $256 with unlimited km that would fit 4 comfortably.  We could also rent a 7-passenger van for $342 which […]

Posted 09 June 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

Field Trip Photos

Just a couple shots from our KidLit class trip to Toronto last Friday.  I don't know how the picture of JK Rowling's signature at the Osbourne Collection got on my digital camera because you're not allowed to take photos there! And a bonus image: the best use for an air conditioner…

Posted 06 June 2006 § LibrarySchool § Main Page § Photo ‡ Comments (0) °

"May 2-4" and Some Other Differences Between Ontario and Saskatchewan

Christina and Jonathan came over a couple weeks ago for drinks and one of the topics of conversation was some of the differences we've encountered between Ontario and Saskatchewan.  Since it's the May long weekend and that's one of the things that came up, I thought this would be a good time to list a […]

Posted 20 May 2006 § Main Page ‡ Comments (21) °