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Posted By: judym
Posted On: Sep 1, 2008
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In 1973, Sherrill Cheda, Phyllis Yaffe and Barbara Clubb thought it was odd that most librarians were women, but most people who ran libraries were men. They decided to publish something that would take women seriously. Women who were speaking truths that had never been aired. In Emergency...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: May 31, 2008
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In the interim since I’ve posted, I’ve met and surpassed the 21 Challenge fundraising goal, got the school library staffed for next year, organized two really awesome programs (youth-elder exchange, academic skills workshops), sorted through a MASSIVE book donation from Yellowknife...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Mar 28, 2008
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Since fundraising has not been going well, I decided to take a completely different approach than what I had been doing before. There are a lot of programs here that require funding so my challenge has been how to put this issue on the map. I’ve racked my brain and have turned to the...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Mar 24, 2008
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That’s been one of my mottos these past few weeks. I’ve been busy trying to speak with organizations in town about the school library and I’m hoping that my efforts here will help convince the powers that be that the school needs a librarian. I’m finding one of the...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Mar 13, 2008
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This past week, I have been trying to raise the profile of our library project via the Amazon wishlist and things have picked up momentum a lot faster than I anticipated. CBC North was interested in the story, so you might hear me speaking about the project on The Trailbreaker news and...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Feb 16, 2008
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Information literacy is something I take great interest in and it wasn’t until I came up north that I began to think of this type of literacy as having many tiers. For one thing, it never even occured to me that before one can become “information literate” one must be...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Feb 7, 2008
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I’m writing from Fort McPherson, a small town (roughly 400 people) populated mostly by Gwich’in people. I’m making a very long day trip (7:00 am - 2:00 am) to obtain Gwich’in language materials for the school library. I’ve learned that the best way to get...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Nov 22, 2007
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I learned how to do cataloging today using the OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). It reminded me of this film clip that I came across on The Polyglot Spot .
Maybe it’s naive, but I don’t see why both systems of organization can’t coexist for library catalogs....... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Jan 8, 2008
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The TPL is having an online public survey to help them redesign their website. (via BlogTO )
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Jan 16, 2008
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I know I haven’t updated in awhile, but I am posting bearing major news. As some of you may know, I’ve moved to a very remote community, north of 60. I’m working part time for their local youth center as well as volunteering full time in a public school. On my third day at...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Jan 24, 2008
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For people who love books, weeding is a difficult task to do, but an essential one for an attractive and useful collection . And for most people, saving books is heavily associated with preserving knowledge and you don’t want to throw knowledge away. But knowledge and information are...... [view]
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