My Article in Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research

November 30, 2006 in Professional Development, conferences, e-learning, rants

Well whaddayaknow! I am published in an open source journal. I have a short opinion piece called ‘“That’s ‘E’ for ‘Everyone’”: The Future of E-Learning in Public Libraries where I argue the thinking for e-Learning has to change for it to fit in the vision of the public library.

Things Noticed: The “Slow Library” Movement

November 24, 2006 in Change Management, Heroes, Trends, technology

The Dalhousie SIM Alumni Association’s Outstanding Alumni (pdf file sorry) Award Winner for 2006 is Mark Leggott. As the winner, Mark spoke to alumni and students last night on a topic of his choosing. His topic was something he called “The Slow Library Movement.“
As far as I can tell, the Slow [...]

Things noticed: Open Access discussed on CLA wiki.

November 20, 2006 in Information Policy, Professional Development

The  Information Commons Wiki, an object created by the Information Commons Interest Group (ICIG) of the Canadian Library Association.  The current project is the beginnings for a policy statement on open access for the CLA.
I see this as an important initiative, since I believe that open access journals may provide public librarians with increased opportunities [...]

Something Shared Since Suspicion Says Seeming Slothfulness is Certain for me.

November 8, 2006 in Just For Fun, Trends, rants, technology

SSSssssssssssssss!
Apologies for being so neglectful recently. I have been privately exploring the wonders of XSLT. This is basically an XML schema you can use to turn an XML file into other XML files, Html files or even just plain text (which means you can turn an XML [...]