During my FTRW series last year, I did one post about a book that had been removed from Saskatoon Public Library back in 2004. Beyond having fun with the healthy rivalry between our two fine cities, I also tried to make a serious point. In addition to sounding like a really flimsy reason to remove […]
This is sort of an extension of an earlier post on “What is the One Defining Quality of Desirable Employees?” where I claimed that optimism trumped all. I recently watched a YouTube clip (sorry, didn’t save the link) where the CEO of Zappo’s talked about some of the unique things they asked during interviews and […]
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Posted 17 February 2011
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Today is the one year anniversary of RPL going live as part of the SILS consortium. Hard to believe and definitely deserving of a list (or even two!) Best Things About SILS 1. Patrons (and staff) can now easily get books from any public library system in the province. Especially for smaller systems with fewer […]
It’s no secret that I’m interested in the role of “fun” – fun at work, fun at home, fun in life – not just because fun is, well, FUN! but because I strongly believe it has a real impact on how people work, live and interact. One timely example comes from the National Family Literacy […]
It was National Family Literacy Day today and nothing starts your day off like doing the hokey pokey to tie in to this year’s theme of “Play for Literacy’. Good stuff – I joked with one co-worker that we could do it everyday, sort of the RPL version of the Wal-Mart Cheer. Another co-worker […]
I think people generally tend to think of libraries as quiet places where nothing much ever happens. On the other hand, here’s a partial list of things I’ve heard of happening at libraries I’ve worked at and elsewhere – lots of which involve illegal activities while others are just unsavory… fist fights between patrons that […]
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Posted 26 January 2011
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This year’s winners of the annual “Pimp My Bookcart” contest have been announced. This was the contest’s fifth and final year so people appear to have gone all out with their entries. (On a related note, we briefly considering having a “Pimp My Bookcart” contest as part of our staff conference this year. Unfortunately, a […]
Like many public libraries, Regina has a “Friends of the Library” group. But unlike most libraries, ours sprung up in response to threatened closures of three branches plus our art gallery and our Prairie History Room in 2003. The Friends group played a big role in keeping the threatened locations alive, managing to get […]
Outside of thinking about things like my current projects or what’s in the pipeline for the near future, e-mails that need to be sent or answered and generic everyday stuff like that, there are some things that occupy my thoughts for at least a brief amount of time pretty much every single day that I’m […]
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Posted 03 November 2010
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what single quality, if any, would be the thing you should look for in hiring new employees. There are a few things that made me think of this – obviously working in the HR Unit at RPL has me thinking about these things, especially when I consider the […]
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Posted 26 October 2010
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