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Article Round Up (End of the World Edition)

What You’re Feeling Isn’t A Vibe Shift, It’s A Permanent Change That Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief Mental Health Emerges As Top Concern For Canadian Employers Worried About Workers’ Low Grade Trauma From The Pandemic Uhm, Happy St. Patrick’s Day?

¶ Posted 17 March 2022 § Family § Jobs § Library § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: Covid, economics, health

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – “The Main Event” – 2009 Canadian Library Association Conference @adr @jessamyn

I have so many fond memories of different experiences during my fifteen (!) years as a public librarian. One of the most memorable was being invited to represent public libraries in a pre-conference session put on by the Emerging Technologies group of CLA. As if being the representative for basically all public libraries in the […]

¶ Posted 10 March 2022 § Humour § Internet § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Technology § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, metafilter

Friday Fun Link – 3-Day Novel Contest Locked in A Chapters Bookstore

A writer I know recently posted about a contest he participated in where he spent three days in a Chapters bookstore trying to write a novel. The contest was put on by Book Television, a Canadian specialty channel that closed last year. When I worked in the cultural non-profit sector, I remember writing a letter […]

¶ Posted 04 March 2022 § Canada § FridayFunLink § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: alberta, book

How Non-Librarians Imagine A Librarian’s Typical Work Day

From McSweeney’s…

¶ Posted 16 February 2022 § Censorship § Humour § Jobs § Library § List ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, freedomtoreadweek

Saturday Snap – I See A Lot of Home Fries In My Future!

Maybe a year ago, a coworker hooked me up with a guy who sells 50 lb bags of misshapen potatoes. And of course, when I picked up the first time, it turned out he’s a library patron I knew! In fact, after chatting with him during my most recent pickup, I even ended up sending […]

¶ Posted 12 February 2022 § Library § Photo § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, food

Saturday Snap – Life’s Too Short For Unsalted Butter

In light of yesterday’s post where I happened to share the screenshot a portion of a life advice article that said we should eat salted butter as life is too short for unsalted, I thought I’d post a pic I happened to snap at Safeway recently. Saying “life is too short for unsalted butter” may […]

¶ Posted 29 January 2022 § MemoryLane § Photo § Sad § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: food, health, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Family Literacy Day (January 2018)

Happy Family Literacy Day! Here’s some pics from a Family Literacy Day event we had at the library a few years back…

¶ Posted 27 January 2022 § Library § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, education

A Few Random Covid Thoughts

A coworker observed that an occupational hazard of working in a place where we hand out rapid tests kits is the risk of people over sharing *why* they want the tests. This gives you this wild anecdotal taste of how widespread Covid is right now – business owners, parents, students, neighbours on each side of […]