From My Bottom Step

W3: Blue-Colored Glasses

I’m tying this post to the library that I was at earlier this evening.

Delegation by LPL Friends

Demand for library services is very strong. #video

Library Smokers, Look Out!

Where should library patrons smoke?

These Look Really Cool

Any of my family members reading this? Because you know how much I love quirky, gadgety, functional new ideas. And how much I love to read. And the fact that I don’t have room in my place for a really big library. And you know all about my attachment to my laptop.

Put all of that information together with the fact that Christmas is approaching and you still don’t know what … Continue Reading

Printing Porn at the Library

A media release from London Police Service.

Ambitious Murphy

Ambitious Murphy. One of the groups that performed at today’s ‘LOUD In The Garden.’ (video)

Library Branch Renovations

If your falling-down local library branch gets an infusion of fixit dollars in the near future, you may have Councillor David Winninger to thank for it.

During today’s Committee of the Whole discussion about staff’s recommended projects for federal/provincial infrastructure dollars, item # 3.2 (”Life Cycle Upgrades to Government Buildings and Property – Library Branches”) failed to get approval.

Undeterred by that initial setback, the Councillor waited for all the other items … Continue Reading

C’mon Shmooze …

I just took my leave of … Continue Reading

Give Us Our Library WiFi

So, what’s up with the library lately? What secretive operational decision has reduced the library functionality and usefulness to those of us who pay for it? And apparently, without any political oversight?
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Does This Make Sense to You?

Following the Harper government’ federal budget last month, which included a $500,000 cut to the Library and Archives Canada budget, todays announcement that the national Book Exchange Centre will be closed.
“Opened 35 years ago, the exchange centre is a massive swap shop for public and academic libraries across Canada. Libraries donate books and periodicals their patrons no longer use and, in response … Continue Reading