Blog Check

One of my favourite things about the stats package that comes with this blog is seeing who is linking to me (and therefore where my hits are coming

Time Lapse of the Wikipedia Article for the Virginia Tech Shooting

I'd seen something like this once before for some other news event (Saddam's hanging?) and, as I suspected, someone has one again created a time lapse of how

Friday Fun Link – The Great British Literary Census (April 20, 2007)

Britain’s biggest specialist book chain, Waterstone’s, asked its 5,000 staff to name their favourite five books written since 1982, the date Waterstone’s opened its first store. The list

Slogans For A New Librarian?

I'm looking for fun slogans of the type a person might, for example, print out and post on the wall at their new library job.  They don't necessarily

I Have Nothing To Say

It rarely happens but after a long day (went out on the longest van run we do which  took me almost to the Manitoba border then back, starting

My First Book Purchased As A Librarian

Learned how to deal with patron book requests yesterday and as part of that process, officially authorized my first ever book purchase which was Colony: The Harrowing Story

Library Job Interviews – My Experience (including sample questions)

[2007-05-06 – MetaFilter had a great post with lots of interview related resources and discussion.] I said I wouldn't talk about my job much on this blog but

A Few Thoughts on E-mail

I came across the home page of a computer science professor who's given up on e-mail while searching for information on Facebook.  (It's not that he's switched completely

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