Archive for the 'kids' Category

Treading on the Commons: Book Recommendations and the Wisdom of the Crowd

March 17, 2008 in Community Development, Customer Service, Just For Fun, Leadership, Reading, Trends, accessibility, family, ideas, kids, library2, slowlibrary, technology

I love the idea of recommendation services like LibraryThing, Bibliophil and Books iRead. The main reason I like these services is because of their potential to identify items for me that I may never encounter on my own. You have to accept that I am a) a busy parent with little time [...]

Swimming the Web

February 12, 2008 in Community Development, Ethics, Information Policy, Leadership, Trends, communications, family, ideas, kids, media, security, slowlibrary, technology

I am a great fan of Judy Blume.   So much so that I have started reading her books (somewhat prematurely) to my four-year-old son.   The most recent entry is Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great.  It was timely, since my four-year-old is now learning to swim.
If you don’t know the book, then suffice it [...]

In With the New; In With the New.

January 8, 2008 in Change Management, Community Development, Ethics, Fundraising, GTD, Just For Fun, Leadership, Professional Development, Reading, diversity, family, ideas, kids, lookbacks, rants, self-promotion

Ten more ideas about how I can make my life better, in libraries and elsewhere:

 Plan an unconference — somewhere, somehow.

The field needs more unconferences, and I’d like to host/organize one for local librarians this year — probably in the summer sometime.

 More controlled and productive computer time.

No, this has nothing to do with social software.   I [...]

Out With the Old, In With the New. . .

January 7, 2008 in GTD, Just For Fun, Professional Development, conferences, family, ideas, kids, lookbacks, rants

Last year, I created a post of Ideas for the New Year as a way to mark my progress over the year.   Overall, I don’t think I did too bad in completing them.  Here are the ideas, and how well I’ve done in completing them.

 New Website for the library.   

Check.  It happened, go look.

Contribute to [...]

Kids Help Phone Cyberbullying Report

January 2, 2008 in Community Development, Ethics, Information Policy, Leadership, Partnerships, Trends, diversity, e-learning, family, ideas, kids, library2, media, security, technology

There have been lots of exciting things happening in my life these days, which means I have backlog of the things I would most like to write about.    Expect January to be busier with my blog than December was.
But, to tide you over until then, I think these Kids Help Phone reports are invaluable [...]

“In the Desert” — Kids YouTubing at the Halifax Public Libraries

October 11, 2007 in Trends, kids, library2, projects, self-promotion, technology

What fun, a claymation program at your library and then everyone can see it on YouTube! Hurray. Heather and crew at the Spring Garden Memorial Library did a “Under the Sea” program last year, which was also quite cute. I love it!

Hi, I’m Canada?

October 10, 2007 in Community Development, crapola, family, kids, media, rants

I’m sorry if this is a change of pace from all my professional writing, but it has to be said in public.   Maybe there are more CBC-watching parents out there as well.
I love the CBC.   So does my son.   My son grew up on CBC Kids and has been enjoying for four years.   He [...]