If you're fortunate enough not to know, Glenn Beck is the latest TV talking head in the US in the Bill O'Reilly/Rush Limbaugh mould (mold?). He's getting a lot of attention recently, posting the largest viewership gains of any cable news host and being the driving force behind the Tea Bag protests (“Hey Bevis, Heh, He said Tea-bagger. Heh-heh. Heh.”)
This article talks about Beck's attempts to have the site taken down (and why that approach may backfire) as well as providing some deeper thoughts on web memes, trademark law and what is permissible in terms of satire of public figures.
The Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS) study is a major research project happening at the University of North Carolina.
Here's a blurb from their web site's “About Us” page:
“Workforce Issues in Library and Information Science (WILIS)
project is designed to study the career patterns of graduates of LIS
programs. In general, LIS programs have lacked the time and resources
to track their graduates. As a result, stakeholders do not have an
adequate understanding of what happens to LIS graduates over the long
term. LIS educators, in particular, do not have consistent data on the
extent to which their programs meet students’ expectations, prepare
them for the workplace or meet continuing learning needs. Such an
understanding would assist in educating and managing the LIS workforce
more effectively.”
The University of Western Ontario is one of the participating schools and I was one of the grads asked to take the survey which I did tonight.
Came across this photo on the official Sask Library Association page on Flickr – a shot of the judges for the Library Olympics event which was held after the Awards Banquet with one judge in particular showing a high level of enthusiasm.
And bonus SaturdaySnap…one of the participants in the “Best Shush!” event:
I think I sort of blew Pace's mind the other day when we were talking and I said “Daddy used to be little like you are now.” You could see the wheels turning and then he replied in a slightly awed voice, “Daddy no big? Daddy little?”
Yep.
Being a father really brings home how things repeat themselves. I remember spending hours as a kid looking through a shoebox of unsorted family photos my parents kept in the cabinet in the living room. And I'm sure that someday Pace will look at the millions of digital photos we're now taking and laugh at Shea's and my funny hairstyles and outmoded fashion sense.
Except I'm sure that Pace's equivalent of the somewhat ironic but lovingly done My Parents Were Awesome web site will take some form that I can't even imagine today – just as I'm sure that the parents whose photos are submitted to that page never could've imagined that their photos would be seen by thousands of strangers around the world.
Well, definitely last year anyhow and I think back in 2006 too from the look of things. I'm sure I did this in 2007 too but the post wasn't tagged, keyworded or referred to in any identifiable way. (Uhm, NP: “First Snow of the Year” – Hawksley Workman by the way.)
An interesting graphic of how different NHL teams break down by region/country, size, weight and age. I'm not going to do the math but I'll just assume that, with 40 players for a population of a million people, Saskatchewan is still the most heavily represented jurisdiction in the NHL on a per-capita basis, both on an annual and also an all-time basis.
I missed the end of Banned Books Week but meant to post this story – not just because it does a pretty good job of capturing the importance of Freedom to Read as a core principle in libraries – but also because it contains perhaps the greatest opening paragraph in a newspaper story of all-time:
“So much for the stereotype of library ladies as cardigan-wearing
schoolmarms, all pinched and prudish: Ottawa Chief Librarian Barbara
Clubb has just come out in defence of instructional guides for anal sex.”
Another in the never-ending series – Jason's fond memories of his semester in England…
Sometimes you just need a song that makes you get up and dance and this one fits the bill perfectly (especially when you're 22 and have a couple pints in you!)
(Sorry – embedding disabled by request. I'd link to a live or alternate version but the video is the equal of the song in the entertainment department.)
