Even though the site's owner tends to frown on non-factual Q&A's, in my opinion Ask Metafilter is at its best when it has more chatty/big-picture/experiential questions such as the recent one asking for stories about things that fathers did to build strong relationships with their daughters. Some good tips there for any parent with children […]
Even though it rained off and on, Shea and I had a great day at the Kitchener-Waterloo's edition of the Word on the Street Festival today. Having been a board member of the Calgary edition for three years, I was looking forward to seeing what one of the other host cities for this national festival […]
Books in Canada have been costing up to 36% more than in the US, due to the way the book prices have been fixed to an outdated exchange rate. However, following pressure from unhappy consumers and bookstore owners, most publishers are now reducing their prices. Random House Canada will begin offering discounts to retailers on […]
When I first considered doing an independent study, I remember talking to Lynne and her recommending that I look through some of the past studies that were archived at the GRC. I went and paged through them and have to admit, I checked specifically to see which was the shortest one. “Okay,” I thought. “If […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
