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 […]
Ten Books To Feed The Imagination – includes the usual suspects such as Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling but a couple surprises as well. (via The Guardian) Classmate of the Day: I reminded Holly that she had a “birthday” today when a group of us sent for supper this evening which ended up getting us […]
Concerts Are FunWent a bit crazy last night and bought tickets to both Bright Eyes (June) and Wilco (July), both at the Centennial Hall in London. Two of my favourite bands within a month – why not? Music Is PoliticalOne of (maybe the only) good thing about George Bush being in power in the US […]
My Five Favourite Nationalistic Holidays 1. Robbie Burns Day 2. St. Patrick's Day 3. Cinco De Mayo 4. St. George's Day (tied with Guy Fawkes Day) 5. Not really an “ethnic” holiday but I always thought the February “Family Day” in Alberta was a good idea. Canada needs a couple more national statutory holidays to […]
The parents have left, Shea's at work and I'm just relaxing a bit, enjoying having the apartment completely to myself for the first time in ages. Took it easy on M&D's final day here – slept in a bit then drove around looking for a place to eat. All were busy or closed or being […]
Now that I'm a cagey veteran library student with a whole semester under my belt (well, two days from now), I thought I would pass along some of the wisdom (as opposed to data, information or knowledge) that I've picked up in the last fourteen weeks. Ten Tips For New Library Students in UWO's FIMS […]
Got this from Jillian “Cenobyte” Bell. Think about this … On Wednesday of this week, at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. That won't ever happen again. Thank you…You may now return to your (normal?) life. She wrote that she thought I was […]
Had a long day today – discussed an assignment with my 503 instructor (“discussed” might not be the best word to use but I'm trying to be polite), met with the Acting Associate Dean to discuss an upcoming speaker in our speaker series and also to get approval to do an Individual Study project as […]
The official list of nominees for the Spirit of Librarianship Award was released the other day. It's too bad they don't give you a little blurb on who people are and why they were nominated as I think that would help people make up their minds, especially if you don't know some (any) of the […]
It's killing me but I'm having to change the focus of a a paper I'm doing for my “501 – Perspectives on Library and Information Science” class. Originally, I was going to compare the differences between the public library systems in Alberta (the only place in Canada along with Quebec that charges user fees for […]
