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Wisdom Wednesday – At The End of the Day…

I think it was the very first post I made when I started doing these workplace/organizational culture themed “Wisdom Wednesday” posts – the best lesson the best manager I never directly worked for taught me. “At the end of the day, forget all the rules and policies and guidelines because those are just words on […]

¶ Posted 25 March 2026 § Jobs § Library § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: orgdevl

Music Monday – “Should five percent appear too small/Be thankful I don’t take it all/’Cause I’m the taxman/Yeah, I’m the taxman.”

“Taxman” – The Beatles

¶ Posted 23 March 2026 § Library § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: beatles, economics

Friday Fun Link – “Oh Poop!” A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale

With some help from ChatGPT, I/we wrote the following fairy tale… (Any resemblence to people, places or things living or on life support, is purely coincidental.) Oh Poop!: A Modern Illustrated Fairy Tale In a broad kingdom, flat as a table and swept by endless winds, there stood an aging castle at the heart of […]

¶ Posted 20 March 2026 § Humour § Internet § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § News § Photo § Politics § Sad § Saskatchewan § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: book, economics, education, health, history, saskatchewan

Wisdom Wednesday – Oh, Poop!

¶ Posted 18 March 2026 § Humour § Jobs § Library § Meme § MemoryLane § News § Politics § Saskatchewan § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, education, language

Saturday Snap – A Fire in the Library!

Luckily, it was a pretend fire for a “Campfire Stories” program offered in partnership with Radio-Canada and CBC.

¶ Posted 14 March 2026 § Library § SaturdaySnap ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: camping, language

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Civic Engagement (February 2004, June 2009, Sept 2025)

I feel so fortunate to have grown up with parents who instilled a love of reading, news, politics and community engagement into me from a young age. Whether it was my dad reading the Leader Post from front-to-back every evening or my mom’s involvement on the Board of the Saskatchewan Union of Nurses, I have […]

¶ Posted 12 March 2026 § Family § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § Politics § ThrowbackThursday § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education, history, language, parents

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – All About All-Inclusives (Sept 2017)

Before programming at RPL was centralized, each branch got to plan their own programs. I sometimes put myself on the docket to talk about subjects I had a particualr knowledge (some might say expertise!) in…

¶ Posted 05 March 2026 § Library § MemoryLane § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, education, travel

Wisdom Wednesday – McDonald’s CEO Shows The Death of Fast Food (and the Importance of Knowing the Job)

It’s an ongoing debate about whether it’s better for managers to have direct frontline experience in their past or if a “good manager is a good manager” whether they’re selling insurance, dish soap or running a public library. We’re lucky in Saskatchewan that our province (and I believe BC) are the only provinces that require […]

¶ Posted 04 March 2026 § Jobs § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Politics § Wisdom Wednesday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: education

Wisdom Wednesday – Manager vs. Leader

@claleadership101 Accountability vs. ownership. I LOVE this shift that can free our people from micromanagement to ownership. Great way to engage the team in a fresh way where they take personal responsibility of their work and business. Change the words you use and create a culture of ownership and commitment. Here’s a simple framework to […]