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Labour Day feels more like New Years to me than January 1st so I need some resolutions!
We’re just a few days away from Labour Day. Thankfully, a holiday here in Canada! It also marks the start of the school year for most institutions of higher learning, including the one I work at. So, I find that it feels more like the beginning of the new year than January [...]
Posted by Laurie on August 28th, 2008 under Laurie speaks! | 1 Comment »Becoming a librarian who teaches well (not just who teaches)
This post is inspired by an article from my favourite quilting magazine, Mark Lipinski’s Quilter’s Home. Issue September/October 2008, page 13, entitled Think about being a… Quilting teacher. Hopefully, they don’t mind I used their article as an inspiration and take it for the compliment that it is!
Be superior than. For most [...]
Posted by Laurie on August 27th, 2008 under Laurie speaks! | Comment now »Trying out the new IFLA InfoLit logo
I like the new Information Literacy logo that IFLA has just launched and it seems like a fun way to promote information literacy with each work email I send. The international nature of it really appeals to me. So, I’ve added the English version to my signature of my work email. It’ll [...]
Posted by Laurie on August 26th, 2008 under Laurie speaks! | Comment now »Advice from Yukon First Elders on teaching members of their communities
Posted by Laurie on August 25th, 2008 under Laurie speaks!, Referrals | Comment now »CONGRATULATIONS to Cara Bradley at the University of Regina for winning the President’s Award for Partnership in Education!!!
Wednesday, at my IHL’s annual Professional Development Day, they handed out several service awards. Among them was the President’s Award for Partnership in Education and the recipient was Cara Bradley and her staff in the UREAD program at the University of Regina!!
I was honoured to accept the award on behalf of Cara and had [...]
Top 10 trends in the design of academic library homepages for Fall 2008
Lots of academic library websites have undergone big changes this summer, I’ve noticed. It’s all rather exciting! I’d like to highlight the best I’ve seen. I’m also going to do what I can to try and implement a of them for my own library’s website!
Search box for the catalogue on [...]
Posted by Laurie on August 21st, 2008 under Light bulbs, Referrals | 1 Comment »Back in Whitehorse, back at work, and back in the Pacific time zone
I totally love travelling west. The jet lag just isn’t as hard as it is going east!
Well, I’m back at the desk and getting geared up for another year of exciting librarianship! No doubt lots of blogging will result.
I also got my road bike tuned up while I was gone and some sweet [...]
No time to blog, just days left here
I’m literally counting down the days until it’s time to fly away from here so I’m trying to get lots done! Sorry for no posts. Enjoy this fun comic instead!
Posted by Laurie on August 7th, 2008 under Laurie speaks! | Comment now »Observed Library Behaviour: Defacing library materials
Maybe MUN’s library just wants to make sure that students understand the consequences of their actions, but there’s an inordinate amount of signage up warning students not to damage or deface books. Wow, and I thought my library loved its signage!
Thankfully, I have not been witness to any student defacing library materials but I [...]
Observed Library Behaviour: Being confused by different collections
I can’t believe I’m confessing this, but as a patron I’m realizing that I’m rather confused by books, that seem exactly the same to me, being stored in different locations based upon their lending periods.
Most of this confusion is coming from the Reserve section.
Without realizing what I was doing, I used the catalogue to look [...]
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