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Wednesday, October 25
And We're Back...
by
Jason
on Wed 25 Oct 2006 05:54 PM EDT
After a bit of a glitch (or a glit of a bitch if you're dyslexic), we're back. Got through to Customer Support at NetIdentity very quickly today and my good friend Gregory doubled my transfer limit per month from here on with no extra charge. Yay! To celebrate, let's blow some bandwidth by linking to a few photos (just kidding - I don't think linked Flickr images count since I'm not loading them directly from my site - I should've checked though)
Here is the grad photo we took at noon today of students who are finishing the MLIS program this semester...
(This photo helps make it hit home that I'm almost done the program. But what really made it hit home was when I was at Zellers last weekend to buy toilet paper and I was like "uhm, how much toilet paper do we need for two months?" TP's one of those things, like salt or paperclips or Jack Daniels, that you just use until it's gone then you buy more without much thought of how much that usage actually is or may be in the future. (I ended up buying 20 rolls by the way.))
Sunday, October 22
(Imagine a "Big Event Is Coming To Town" Commerical Voice) One Day Only! Tomorrow! Tomorrow! TOMORROW!
by
Jason
on Sun 22 Oct 2006 04:05 PM EDT
Monday, October 16
Art Slade and Maggie Wood at FIMS Next Monday
by
Jason
on Mon 16 Oct 2006 09:26 PM EDT
 Funny story. After my "Public Libraries in the Community" class today, my group met because we have to come up with a business plan proposal for a new "for fee" service for a library. We were sort of struggling to come up with an idea as most of us were thinking "libraries = free" (I love my group!)
Some ideas included charging for a tutoring service (that would be more advanced than the still-free homework club that most libraries have). Someone else proposed a business centre with faxing capabilities, computers with no time restrictions, telephones, etc. Stealing an idea directly from the Regina Public Library, I came up with the idea of implementing a full-scale film theatre as part of the library's services. None of the ideas were really grabbing us though.
But then our instructor came up and suggested a speaker series. Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that? 
(Meanwhile, I had 10 Lunch Bucket posters sitting in my backpack at that very moment!) Another bonus of this idea: since I planned (or helped plan) for a lot of speakers over the past 10 years, this assignment will be like second nature. Yay!
Monday, October 2
Librarians Who Read Minds
by
Jason
on Mon 02 Oct 2006 09:25 PM EDT
So we were doing our tour of the LPL today and I was formulating an updated "Things I Like/Don't Like About LPL" post in my head all afternoon. But then Linda introduced me to the Coordinator of Children's and Youth Services so I could give my spiel about about Art Slade coming to FIMS on Oct 23 at 12pm in NCB285.
"So anyhow, I was hoping that some of the LPL librarians could join us." "Oh, I knew about that already," she said. "Oh?" goes I, wracking my brain. "Did I send you something? Did someone tell you about it? Do you know about about my blog too?" "No, I was on Art's web site last week and he's got it listed in his upcoming appearances."
"Oh...cool."
How's that for synchronicity? Plus all of LPL's branches are closed on Mondays (which normally I'd list as a "don't like") so that might free up more librarians to come than would've been able to otherwise. Awesome!
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