A new site, Brijit provides 100 word summaries of magazine articles in a number of categories. Sort of a MetaFilter for magazines and you guessed it…via MetaFilter.
Some eye-opening photos and text from the book Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.
Part of the reason that some librarians prefer to call patrons “customers” is that they believe in ideas such as “the customer is always right”. But here's a
Amy Buckland (who was recently named a 2008 Library Journal “Mover and Shaker”) has passed along the following notice which is also a great opportunity to highlight some
Yesterday was my one year anniversary with Southeast Regional. I was going to a post to celebrate the fact…but then I just went to bed early. The last
[Edit: Here's a post I did on an Ask MetaFilter thread on the same subject.] Talking about some of the most useful sites online during the past three
Pace was babbling up a storm the other day while grandma was watching him. So she rather ingeniously decided to call our Regina number and leave a message
A recent post on Librarian.net reminded me that this year's list of Library's Journal's 2008 Movers & Shakers is now out. Congrats to Amy Buckland for getting the
The Globe and Mail recently had an article on the benefits of reading and good literacy to your health (PDF). This is probably not a huge surprise but
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
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