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Wednesday, I tweeted this: And I got back responses from several people that surprised me ranging from not having a clue what RSS is to blatantly stating they had “no need for it.” No need? It’s like saying you have no need for reading! No need for information! Inconceivable! Here’s the thing: RSS Feeds are my [...]
While I did make an effort to get to work, there was ongoing trouble with transit buses all over the region including 4 tangled at the foot of the next hill along my route. If I’d had an urgent need to get to work, I could have made it but all that was on the [...]
Apparently, several friends think I have “the coolest job” — this, I discovered after posting this status update to Facebook this morning: this week, work is all about anarchy — specifically a collection of anarchist publications and ephemera held by UVic Special Collections I have switched gears a lot in the past 10 workdays covering: [...]
I still read a lot but, frankly, more and more of it is on a screen than on a printed page. I have a mountain of unfinished books beside my bed. I’ve always had a half dozen or more books on the go at any given time but I used to actually finish them. I [...]
This week is American Library Association’s Banned Book Week, south of the border (the Canadian Library Association promotes Freedom to Read Week in February each year). I thought I would check in on the most frequently banned and challenged books and see how many I’ve read. Here’s the top 10 1. The Great Gatsby by [...]
One of my tasks at work is handling the damaged books (we get a lot), directing them to the librarians whose task it is to decide whether we replace, repair or discard a given item. This week, I found a gem: Miss Kilmansegg and her precious leg: a golden legend. Published circa 1870 the story [...]
The self-help section of a bookstore or library is one of those places I sometimes end up despite efforts to avoid it. While I don’t like to paint any genre with broad brush-strokes, I think I am safe in stating that there are a greater number of pretenders and outright charlatans publishing self-help titles than [...]
It’s just so easy these days to hit “share” and send things out to the wilds of social media that I have been remiss in sharing these wonderful, crazy things. Here’s four names you need to know… 1. Leslie Hall — When I first watched her video for Tight Pants/Body Rolls it was a bit [...]
