I recently bought a gizmo to convert old VHS tapes and other analog signals to a digital format. As I was getting it set-up for the first time, I picked a couple clips I had from around ten years ago – one where I'm featured fairly prominently and one where you get to see my […]
SaskTel Max, a Saskatchewan-based cable TV service has a feature where they have local content available on-demand for their subscribers. This might be a clip profiling an upcoming festival or visiting a few of the best known restaurants around town. Or, in a week or two, it will include a guided tour to the services […]
…I would've cut the grass! View Larger Map And my workplace – Regina Public Library on the right and beautiful Victoria Park on the left… View Larger Map Oh, okay, one more. Here's our family farm overlooking the Qu'Appelle Valley. (It's not documented but someone said that a lot of small towns are in the […]
Used a poor man's hack (point iPhone at TV) to get a clip from our local TV news about RPL joining our new province-wide consortium onto YouTube. Sorry for the crappy sound…
Today was the big day when RPL joined three other library systems within the province who had already gone live as part of a province-wide library system called the Saskatchewan Information and Library Services consortium (SILS). By the end of the year, SILS will be comprised of a total of ten library systems covering the […]
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.)
