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Memory Lane: 85 Years of Saskatchewan License Plates

This book showed up in my mailbox at school the other day courtesy “The Book Fairy”.  Can you imagine why a library in our nation's capital would ever get rid of such a treasure?  Me either.  It's a limited edition too – this copy is #260 of 1000.  Lots of interesting trivia, colour photos and […]

Posted 08 August 2006 § Main Page § Photo § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Midnight Pastimes

Instant MessagingI am back on instant messaging.  After using IM quite a bit in the heyday of ICQ, I got away from it for a variety of reasons (no friends mainly ) but after being asked for my MSN info by a colleague today (and also attempting to do a virtual reference exercise last week […]

Posted 22 July 2006 § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page § PopCulture § Randomness ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Book Expo Canada 2006 – The Summary

Back from a couple days at Book Expo Canada in Toronto and here are some random thoughts… – if you've never been, how the Book Expo trade show works is basically you walk around a huge trade show (200+ exhibitors?) and all the publishers and other writing organizations have booths promoting their books, authors and […]

Posted 13 June 2006 § Main Page § Photo § PopCulture § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Field Trip!!!

This Friday, our Children's Literature class is going on a field trip to Toronto.  First, we're going to visit The Osborne Collection which is a public collection of rare children's books and which includes two other collections – the Lillian H. Smith Collection and the Canadiana Collection.  The site features info about their current exhibit […]

Posted 31 May 2006 § LibrarySchool § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Spirit of Saskatchewan: A Celebration of Books

This catalogue of books that have been nominated or won Saskatchewan Book Awards was one of the last projects I worked on before I came to library school.  It was a Centennial project with a committee comprised of reps from the Sask Book Awards, Sask Writers Guild, Sask Library Association, Sask Publishers Group and Sask […]

Posted 25 May 2006 § Main Page § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

Treeful of Starling

Until I figure out an automated way, let's do it like this… N(ow) P(laying): “You and the Candles” – Hawksley Workman …from his new CD “Treeful of Starling” which I picked up today at Masonville Mall.  It's been a fairly commerce-enabled day – I also finally broke down and ordered a digital camera, a Canon […]

Posted 01 March 2006 § PopCulture ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged:

The Writer's Ego

Another reason I'm suspect about the majority of blogs out there, is that many of them tend to be little more than exercises in ego.  Don't get me wrong – I've got as healthy of an ego as anyone (maybe healthier ).  But again, is it big enough to think that my random ramblings are […]

Posted 28 February 2006 § Blog § Jobs § LibrarySchool § PopCulture ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: