One of the best things about attending an international conference is that you get to meet people that you would probably never have come across otherwise. And that’s exactly what happened at IFLA. After spending some time at the ‘Cocktail evening’ with some lovely librarians from the Legislative Assembly of Ontario we made arrangements to [...]
Archive for August, 2008
A behind the scenes tour of a government library…
Posted in Books, Conferences, tagged government libraries, IFLA, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, rare books, Toronto libraries on August 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A visit to Toronto Public Library inspires and confuses…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cataloguing, classification, dewey decimal classification, Librarians, libraries, public libraries, toronto public library on August 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
One of my favourite things to do on holiday is to visit public libraries; some people might think that’s a bit sad but I look at it as keeping up to date with everything that’s going on internationally.
On this trip I visited Toronto Public Library’s Central Branch, which occupies a very convenient space on York [...]
