Today, I went to the wind-up of Time To Read, a joint project of Southeast Regional Library and the Prairie Valley School Division. I was part of the initial steering committee for this project which started last summer but had to reduce my role when I went on the road for most of January, February […]
As I may have mentioned before, the younger me would probably punch the older me in the mush if he could see how much management theory I'd be reading (and enjoying ) at this point in my life. To me, one of the most interesting aspects of management theory today is the interplay between different […]
I drove nearly four hours round-trip today to do a five minute presentation at a tea in honour of a branch assistant who's been with our region for fifteen years……which makes me think that rural librarianship has some unique requirements you won't find in any other type of library……which makes me think that rural librarianship […]
Today was our semi-annual branch librarian's workshop where we hold a day-long series of presentations related to librarianship and our library system specifically. It went off fairly well with the usual mix of the good (the Dilly Bars from DQ for the afternoon “stretch break” were a hit, even if the weather had turned bitterly […]
Today was our library region's AGM and, though it fell on a different day (April 5 this year, March 31 last year), in my mind this marks one year that I've been with Southeast Regional since that was the day that I officially started. It's funny to think back to that first day – just […]
Each year, our library system gives out four awards to our branches – one for Service, one for Programming, one for Branch Development and one for Branch of the Year which incorporates elements of all three plus more. Right now, I'm working through nearly 200 quarterly reports (48 branches x 4 reports per year) to […]
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know that I've been on the road for the past two months doing computer and Internet training at our various branches around SE Saskatchewan (for anyone who doesn't know about our territory, if you draw a straight line from Regina east to the Manitoba border and […]
It threw me a bit to be typing a random list of common English words rather than the more usual sentences and paragraphs but I did okay on this site's typing test – one of many available online. When I've done other typing tests, both online and in the real world, I get anywhere from […]
TechCrunch recently had a story about a new study which found that lower-income people tend to prefer Yahoo! and higher-income people prefer Google. (Shea's reading over my shoulder and goes “That's funny – I didn't know anyone preferred Yahoo!”)Anyhow, that made me think about the “Everything You Wanted To Know About the Internet (But Were […]
For the most part, I've really enjoyed being on the road for the past month and a half (with one month still to go roughly). In fact, I'm thinking that if I don't find a position when this contract ends, I might just offer myself out as a “Internet & computer training consultant” to other […]
