Category: Miscellaneous
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Calgary Public Library IdeaLab on Kickstarter
I picked up a bookmark at my local branch the other day, and just now followed the URL to a new Kickstarter project by the Calgary Public Library Foundation for IdeaLab. They're looking for $100,000 to help fund a makerspace-type area in the new Central Library currently being built. Kicktraq thinks they're only going to…
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Due-date scarves and ties
BoingBoing posts about a textile artist who makes scarves and ties that look like the good old due-date slip. S/he offers other designs as well, but why would you bother with those?
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What is a (public) library?
We have lots of conversations in my extended family about the role of the public library these days, and I happened across an interesting post from an unlikely source – the Kickstarter blog. In a post titled, Libraries are Everywhere, the author asks the following questions of four founders or employees of very non-traditional, yet…
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Mellen’s lawsuit against Dale Askey has been dropped!
As reported by Dale on Twitter, and fleshed out a bit by The Chronicle of Higher Education, the SLAPP lawsuit by Edwin Mellen Press against Dale Askey has been dropped! Awesome news! number of lawsuits in my life: 0. yes, friends, it's over. details to follow, someday, but for now, just a big thanks to…
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ERIC Webinar: Restoring Access to ERIC’s PDFs
In August 2012, ERIC temporarily disabled access to its collection of full text documents due to personally identifiable information found in some of its older documents. Over the past two years, the ERIC team has worked to clear and re-release many of the documents. ERIC will be hosting a webinar on September 16, 2014 from 1:00–2:30 p.m.…
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Open Government Tour 2014 – Calgary Stop
Yesterday evening instead of attending the prologue of the 2014 Tour of Alberta as I had planned, I found myself at the Calgary stop of Richard Pietro's Open Government Tour. I totally made the right choice! Over the past year I've found myself increasingly interested in both linked data and civic affairs, and this 3-hour…
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Westmount Charter School Calendar 2014/2015
Inspired by Peter in PEI, I went ahead and transcribed the PDF of the official Westmount Charter School (in Calgary) 2014/15 Calendar into Google Calendar and iCal formats so you can actually import them into the calendar of your choice, rather than have to read a PDF. Google Calendar iCal format Update – August 18,…
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What the Heck is Happening up North?
Amanda Wakaruk, Government Information Librarian at the University of Alberta, has written a comprehensive article outlining the BS (my words, not hers), libraries in Canada have been dealing with over the past several years when it comes to accessing Federal information. Her entire paper is available on the UofA Institutional Repository: What the Heck is…
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How do they do that? (WordPress / Drupal)
From time to time I find myself wondering what module a given Drupal site uses to perform some nifty action or another. A while back I found a tool that helps with that spy work for WordPress called simply What WordPress Theme is that? And then I finally found Drupal X-Ray, which does the same…