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Music Monday – “Well they walked that day/The next/And the next/And the water it ran out one by one/Ay mijitos/They looked like dried leaves/Scattered in the sun”

“Migrants” – Sam Baker One of the best managers I’ve known (at least measured by how many quotes of theirs I regularly regurgitate) once said something to this effect: One important thing to remember – those rules, policies, guidelines we have? They’re all just words on paper. They’re arbitrary. And they can be changed completely […]

#yqr Toilet A Top Tourist Attraction

There was a time, shortly after I graduated from my MLIS program, where I seriously thought about putting together a presentation about the importance of the public washrooms in libraries – from making the entire library as a welcoming space for the widest variety of people to being a great way to promote programs to […]

¶ Posted 13 June 2018 § Humour § Library § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § Randomness § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: education, health, saskatchewan, science

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – My Only Ontario Vote (November 2006) #ElectionDay #OntarioVotes2018 #onpooli

With the Ontario provincial election happening today, I’m reminded of the time I unexpectedly got to vote in that province. It was while I was at Western completing my Master’s of Library Science degree and it happened during a federal byelection in London North-Centre which featured Elizabeth May parachuting in to try to win the […]

¶ Posted 07 June 2018 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § News § Politics § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, ontario

Doug Ford or Donald Ford?

Godspeed Ontario!

¶ Posted 06 June 2018 § Humour § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, health, ontario

Myth America

(h/t to JB on FB)

¶ Posted 09 May 2018 § Infographic § News § Politics § United States § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, history, unitedstates

Music Monday – “Yeah, this is America/Guns in my area/I got the strap/I gotta carry ’em”

“This Is America” – Childish Gambino Some of the Things You May Have Missed MetaFilter weighs in Annotated lyrics This Is America: Donald Glover’s Video Is A Gripping Read

¶ Posted 07 May 2018 § MusicMonday § News § Politics § PopCulture § United States § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: history, language, music, unitedstates

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Moving Home (Dec 20, 2006)

A selection of the boxes we shipped home from Ontario after I completed my MLIS…

¶ Posted 26 April 2018 § LibrarySchool § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § Travel ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ontario

Opinion Piece: “On Getting Punched In The Face While Working At The Library”

This opinion piece was written by a librarian in Ohio (who happens to be a FB friend though I’ve never met him in person) but it resonated with me – about some of the “social worker”-type situations library staff deal with regularly (including aggressive patrons – knock on wood, the worst I’ve got was threats and […]

¶ Posted 25 April 2018 § Jobs § Library § MemoryLane § Wisdom § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education

Saturday Snap – [automated voice] “Thank-you for choosing Bell. You can expect a 10 minute wait until we answer your call.”

To be fair, it was about half an hour on hold then half an hour working through diagnosing the issue but still… (Why, oh why haven’t we cut the cord yet???)