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When others speak library speak it makes me happy
I think I’m starting to affect the local vocabulary among my colleagues… and I like it! It’s the much-needed reward for me as my workload suddenly explodes with the start of the school year.
At a meeting a couple days ago, a non-library staff member avidly discussed LibQual. The next day, an Instructor told [...]
BC Information Summit
From a BCLA listserv comes an announcement about the BC Information Summit.
http://www.infosummit.ca/
Description from homepage:
The second BC Information Summit brings together academics, legal experts, journalists, present and past elected officials and experienced Freedom of Information requesters from every sector of society. Together, they shall explore the challenges and solutions of creating an open government and [...]
My five-year service award
Yesterday was my Institution of Higher Learning’s (IHL) yearly retreat and at the morning breakfast with all staff, I was one of several people to receive my five-year service award. Since I started in Sept. 2001, as of yesterday I would still be considered just five years. They have to draw the line [...]
Posted by Laurie on August 29th, 2007 under Laurie speaks! | 1 Comment »I have a craft room/office set-up now. Wieeee!!!
Brad and I spent Saturday morning weekend garage sale shopping to find the last few items to finish setting up the basement suite and my office/craft room (I can right now hear Sylvia cringing when she sees that “slash” in this post’s title, she hates them).
By Sunday night I was utterly exhausted! [...]
I found a wee little book to use as an Idea Book
I was just on vacation in Alaska, lots of camping and craft supply purchasing, I found myself generating lots of ideas for blog postings… but nothing to write them down on so I bought myself a little (and light!) book to use as an Idea Book. Of course, once I bought it I stopped [...]
Posted by Laurie on August 22nd, 2007 under Laurie speaks!, Writings | 2 Comments »Creating a warehouse to store my work from my thesis’s literature review
No, I haven’t forgotten about my thesis. Yes, I did take a bit of a hiatus, but I’m back on track.
One thing I identified that is tripping me up when it comes to getting this done is I haven’t a place to warehouse all the information I collect on information literacy. I don’t [...]
Happy Discovery Day!
Happy Discovery Day!!
No, it’s not Newfoundland and Labrador’s Discovery Day (June 24th), it’s the third Monday in August, where Yukoners celebrate the finding of the gold in 1898. It’s Yukon Discovery Day. The confusion is understandable. Unfortunately, this is not an additional long weekend in August, just a different one… but it’s [...]
Why aren’t there any awards given out for great books on librarianship?
As everyone knows, I have a cookbook addiction and I admit that I will often buy those books that have won, or been nominated for, the prestigious James Beard Award. It’s just that I find time and time again, these books really are excellent.
I like the award system for books. It helps highlight [...]
Thinking about hosting a video collection online?
Shawna asked me what I recommend about hosting a video collection online for a non-library entity and I didn’t know what to say so I passed it onto one of my mentors, Grant Dunham. Here’s his reply (that he said I could post even though he doesn’t think it’s good… whatever):
We would use Breeze [...]
All these Calls-for-Proposals are making me sad…
… I have all these great ideas for conference presentations but I just can’t justify the time it would take to do them. I MUST finish my thesis. All else must wait.
How is that I have writer’s block for my thesis, but not for conference proposal writing? Is there such a thing [...]
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