A recent FB post by someone doing a presentation at a library conference asked for good “Other Duties As Assigned” stories. A real mix of cool, gross and sad and pretty much everything in between as you’d expect. (I did my own list of these types of experiences a few years ago but its’ probably […]
…my grandma having this set of very unique books, The Richards Topical Encyclopedia in her sun room is one of them! One of my pet theories is that most professions require extremely specialized knowledge – heart surgeon, carpenter, PhD researcher, appliance repair person. Librarian is one of a very few (teacher? politician?) professions where being […]
I usually post a picture for Throwback Thursday but for something different today, I thought I’d post a different type of “throwback”. I was recently talking with someone about the best leadership/management/business books we’d read. I said I have a few favourites but one called “Employees First, Customers Second” by Vineet Nayar was the first […]
Some of the society-shifting impacts of Covid are being seen most clearly in workplaces. A lot depends on whether managers and leaders are able to shift their thinking…
Had a helper pop in and pick out a few books after her art class today while I was being #SaturdayLibrarian…
My coworker hooked me up with a guy selling discounted 50lb bags of oversized and misshapen potatoes (who, of course, turns out to be a regular at my library.) At any rate, pulling up at his house, I felt like I was getting in the middle of a shady drug deal – cars lining up, […]
Hudson’s Bay Company selling orange shirts. Provincial governments such as Saskatchewan who don’t declare it a holiday (even as some cities within those provinces do). Catholic schools putting the Christian cross on their orange shirts. Businesses, organizations & people that don’t buy their orange shirts from Indigenous companies. Our federal government and its representatives continuing […]
I found this inscription by Terry Fox’s mom in a book in the Carnduff Public Library when I worked for Southeast Regional Library. Thought it was appropriate to post since today is the 2021 Terry Fox Run. And as a strong NDP supporter, I’m glad Tommy Douglas won CBC’s “Greatest Canadian”. But if I had […]
“He likes repetition,” she said. “So it’s like ‘yea you were just at the library to visit Jason, and you got to see Cheri, and Shirley gave you the hand stamp. There’s a real connection there that’s vital to him.’” Brandon was a child of the system who was put into foster care at the […]
As yesterday was my “work-iversary” of starting at Regina Public Library in 2008, I thought I’d post one of my favourite pictures of all-time for “Throwback Thursday”. This is a scan of a print (remember those where you’d get 24 photos in a roll of film for a camera?) of me coming out of the […]
