I’m back from a couple weeks off and this week will be a transition week with me splitting my time between the Outreach Unit where I’ve worked for the last 18 months and the Regent Place Branch where I’ll (officially) be the Branch Head as of next Tuesday. Sometimes it’s the small things – I […]
I’ve known for a couple weeks but since I now have a start date, I thought I’d officially announce that I have a new position at RPL. As of September 3, I’ll be the new branch head at Regina Public Library’s Regent Place Branch. This is exciting for a number of reasons… Regent is the […]
Was out on the Reference Desk covering a lunch break again today. Instead of going by memory, I consciously made notes to myself about the questions I answered which I thought would be an interesting companion to yesterday’s post on the same topic… The current time in Zurich, Switzerland Help printing an e-mail (our PAC’s […]
Although I’m working in RPL’s Outreach Unit, I occasionally go out to help on the Reference Desk, especially since they’re short-staffed right now, because of both summer holidays and some vacancies. I was out to cover a lunch break today and in one short hour, I got a fairly representative sample of questions you get […]
The CLA Government Library & IM Network has a weekly feature on their web site where they ask various librarians across Canada a standard set of 13 questions that helps give some insight into the wide variety of backgrounds, specializations and interests of people serving as librarians across Canada and beyond. My own profile got […]
Okay, after tomorrow, I promise the 40th birthday-themed entries will stop! (Probably.) But I did want to recap how my day went at work. RPL has a tradition of passing along a pink flamingo to whoever is celebrating a milestone birthday (for some reason I only thought it went to people celebrating their 50th […]
Like the Beatles ushering in the “Swinging 60’s” in 1964, it won’t line-up perfectly. But you can still chart my life in terms of broad decade-long “eras” fairly easily… ~0-10 years – Figuring out the basics, attending elementary school ~11-20 years – High school ~20-30 years – English degree transitions into a nearly decade long stint […]
So after yesterday’s post, I got a comment from a friend that he was related to the Peets who are from the same area as my mom’s family (Mom’s maiden name is Peet). After a few messages back and forth, we determined that the connection was that my mom’s cousin was married to his stepfather’s […]
A great commencement address to a group of baby librarians by Dorothea Salo… Now, graduates, I want you to remember that misbehaving comes in all sizes. I’ve been talking about great big misbehaviors, but depending on what the policies are like where you work, giving a homeless person a library card, waiving a fine for […]
I had agreed to work the Saturday of the long weekend for my boss, who is out of town for her son’s wedding this weekend, before Shea and I got an invite to a 40th wedding anniversary for her aunt and uncle. I still would’ve helped my boss out, even if we knew about the […]
