Last fall, a parent in Texas demanded the removal of the book, Fahrenheit 451 from his 15-year old daughter's school library. (The subject matter of that book being so famous that its…
For anybody who misses the sound of my voice pontificating away on all manner of stuff, I'll be on local community radio with the “Book Chick” tomorrow at
If you like riddles, puzzles, jokes and brain teasers, this is the most addictive and/or infuriating quiz I've ever seen. How bad is it? Through repeated trial and
Guess who? I'd have guessed the FBI. Or the Library of Congress. Or a private collector with an interest in the area – someone like Larry Flynt. But
A pretty major announcement today from the Sask Government that by May, they will begin providing free wireless in the downtowns of our four largest cities – Saskatoon,
I briefly thought about liveblogging the Oscars last night but realised that I'd just make the same snarky jokes that everyone else did. So instead, I thought I'd
From my time on the Calgary Freedom to Read Week committee and having planned a student reading at FIMS, I’ve heard quite a few misconceptions about what “Freedom
It's Freedom to Read Week and to celebrate, I'm going to do a week's worth of posts on the topic. I know a lot of librarians, writers and
Just what the world needs (and what I need too) – another blog!I've set up a blog called The Universal, mainly as a place to link-dump stories and
There are lots of lists of best opening and closing lines/paragraphs of novels. But how about a list of best opening paragraphs from academic titles? (via MetaFilter which,
I started this blog in 2006 when I was doing my Master of Library Science degree at the University of Western Ontario.
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