This article claims that the future success of libraries revolves around the need to allow for a “little chaos”. The author concedes that it’s hard to purposely engineer a chaotic environment but that the rewards, when this approach is embraced, is worth it. I think that bravery based librarianship is the only future we have. […]
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Posted 26 July 2011
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This article speaks to me. I think we probably all have that experience where decisions don’t get made because we’re paralyzed by trying to make the “perfect” choice or not trusting our intuition? The article reminds me of one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received. I was trying to make one of […]
For those not in Regina, there was a mini-controversy in the Queen City this summer when a lecture series by a number of U of R profs in downtown’s Victoria Park was censored by the Regina Downtown Business Improvement District (RDBID) after one of the speakers proposed to do a talk on Palestine. The organizers […]
Shea recently booked us in for family photos. She had a choice of locales and ended up choosing “Urban” as our setting. Once I saw the address where the photographer wanted to meet us, I knew I’d be happy – she picked the corner of Smith St. and 12th Ave which is right behind Regina’s […]
I recently did a post about speakers I’ve seen at various conferences and elsewhere. In the post, I said it was the work version of another list I’d done about a more personal subject – a list of bands I’ve seen. But I think the reality is that the list was inspired by something else. […]
I recently did a post about bands I’ve seen so I thought this might be the work-equivalent of that list from my personal life. I’m focusing on speakers I saw as stand-alones or as keynotes at conferences, not every single person I’ve ever seen do a session which would be a very very long list. […]
We’re off to Calgary from Wednesday until early next week so it may be another blog holiday depending on how busy we are and what my Internet access is like at our various ports of call. In the meantime, here’s a song from one of my favourite artists I discovered when we lived in Cowtown. […]
I’m very interested in the impact of e-books on libraries and have been doing a lot of reading on the subject lately. I came across this article about the unprecedented fall of Blockbuster (which is contrasted with the rise of NetFlix) and it makes me wonder – are libraries more like Blockbuster? Or are they […]
I’m not a huge curling fan (especially compared to some librarians that I know!) But since the World Men’s Curling Championships are in Regina this week and because someone at work hooked me up with four tickets for Sunday night’s draw so I could take Shea as well as my parents, I’ve been following it […]
We had singer-songwriter Maria Dunn as the endnote speaker for one of the conferences I organized when I worked for the Writers Guild of Alberta. She gave an awesome presentation about her writing process mixed with a performance of songs from what was then her newest CD (she was in town a couple weeks ago […]
