Shea and I really enjoying the camping lifestyle and, although it’s still a few years away, have begun talking about what it would be like to downsize our house and buy a small camper/motorhome/camper van and just travel around in that once we retire. We got a glimpse of what it might be like this […]
One hundred and ten seems like a bit of an unusual anniversary to commemorate but anyhow, the Leader Post does have a great article about RPL and how it’s changed over the years.
We didn’t have many plans for our week off in August (ten days counting weekends on either end) but a chance conversation with a library patron has us heading to Calgary for a few days. We’d been talking about visiting the Calgary Zoo to see the pandas since they were announced as coming. But we […]
It seems like one of the highest priorities for any conservative government is targeting the funding of public libraries – in Newfoundland (May 2016), in Saskatchewan (March 2017), in Ontario (April 2019), and now in Alberta (August 2019 (although to be fair, Jason Kenney’s Conservatives haven’t cut yet but are withholding 50% in advance of […]
Pace used his saved up birthday/Christmas/babysitting money to buy himself a $500 Nintendo Switch the other day – a long ways from when he was a year old and having fun on the $50 desktop computer I bought from Southeast Regional Library after they decommissioned it.
America has an epidemic of abandoned churches but they could always look to convert them into libraries!
I got to spend a few hours this afternoon at the annual summer fair of one of the community associations my library serves. There’d been a forecast of rain but the day turned out to be beautiful and I it was great fun to spend time with a bunch of my regular patrons, meet a […]
The rest of the family gets a trip to the museum and ice cream; I get to talk to people about chemtrails, flat earth theories, and how Disney hides secret messages in their movies, all while being #SaturdayLibrarian. 
This amazing program has been running at Regina Public Library’s Central and Albert branches for awhile but is now being expanded to the Regent Place branch where I work. The branch is at 331 Albert St (in the Market Mall that also has Pizza Pizza and Quiznos.) The program offers: * Drop-in counselling on a […]
Usually, men are few and far between in library work. But I had a brief period where not only was I the only man around, I actually had two other dudes working in my branch out of a staff complement of ten. As a bonus, we all had a similar look so we joked about […]
