I'm going to reposition this song as our official SILS training theme!
The launch of the province-wide library system, SILS, is getting more and more media attention with Saskatoon being the first system to go live next week. Here's an article from our local daily newspaper about the new arrangement. Not sure if I mentioned this before but I think that with over 300 branches involved across […]
A colleague and I recently facilitated a forum for the professional librarians at RPL. The first question we asked as an ice breaker was “How did you you become a librarian?” The choice of that question wasn't inspired by the Library Routes Project but obviously the idea of hearing how people come to the career […]
I attended the Saskatchewan Book Awards last Saturday night and since it was the Saskatchewan Publishers Group that first got me involved with that organization, I thought this would be a good time to post the third part of a series I'm doing on the main things I learned from the various jobs I've held […]
A colleague brought this to work on Friday then got snaps of a bunch of the staff trying it on. I'm a Rider fan but gotta say this was a first for me! (Here's a history of the watermelon helmet from TSN.)
In my quest to have a designated theme for every day of the week, maybe I should start a “Sappy Sunday” one if I keep finding touching articles like this one? Man, every librarian should have a story like this. My best attempt so far was a failure – in my last job, I found […]
Tonight, the Riders clinched the CFL's Western Division for the first time in thirty-three years. (We won't spend time contemplating this level of futility in what has long been a four-team division – yikes!) Anyhow, since I used my most current Rider-themed photo last week, I thought I'd dig in the archives for one from […]
I helped coordinate/facilitate/organize a gathering of RPL's professional librarian staff this afternoon. In the course of planning the un-agenda for this session, one of the ideas I came up with was to have a series of library-related trivia questions that I could ask through-out the afternoon to keep things lively and light. Being a Web […]
Although his was the right fibula which is even worse! I've been on crutches for the past two weeks so we decided to just hit a couple local malls for trick or treating today. That meant I could take advantage of their free wheelchairs as that's a lot easier on the arm pits then hauling […]
We had our staff conference last Friday and after posting a photo of the empty ballroom when I arrived at 7:30am on Facebook, a colleague in BC asked for some of my thoughts on different aspects of the conference including how we plan it, what our budget is and our agenda for the day. Here’s some […]
