I couldn't think what to post about so Shea suggested I give an update from my real life. So here it is…– tonight we went for a big walk and ended up in River Park just down the hill from where we live in Weyburn. There was an In Motion celebration going on and Pace […]
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 […]
Some eye-opening photos and text from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
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 various branches around SE Saskatchewan (for anyone who doesn't know about our territory, if you draw a straight line from Regina east to the Manitoba border and […]
Hard to believe it's been five years…where does the time go?
Ross Dawson, a business consultant who tracks different customs, devices, and institutions on what he calls an Extinction Timeline, predicts that libraries will disappear in 2019. He's probably right as far as the function of the library as a civic monument, or as a public repository for books, is concerned. On the other hand, in […]
Our library director commutes daily from Regina to Weyburn and back, a round-trip of about two and a half hours. He told a funny story before Christmas about one day a few years ago when a blizzard hit the province and he was the only person to make it to work that day – even […]
BusinessWeek has done an analysis to determine the relatively abstract notion of which countries are the happiest.As you go through the blurbs, it's revealing that one of my own personal “when I am king” theories is highly represented as a criterion for a happy society – free post-secondary education. (Click through the arrows on the […]
Five Things Grandpa Peet and I Talked About During Pretty Much Every Conversation We Ever Had1. The Stock Market2. The Price of Oil 3. The Blue Jays4. The Weather5. The Stock MarketI was honoured to give the eulogy at Grandpa Peet’s funeral this year, him having passed away only a week after Pace was born. […]
The Canadian dollar hit parity with the US dollar for the first time in thirty-odd years today due to a combination of a booming natural resources sector in Canada and the US having a fuckwit for a President a lagging US economy full of government deficit spending, sub-prime mortgages crashing, a never-ending war, massive trade […]
