HomeInMyShoes’s Comments (group member since Jan 10, 2018)

HomeInMyShoes’s comments from the RPL - Regina Public Library Users group.

Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

I just need to finish up the Battershill and I'll be starting this one.

Marry, Bang, Kill by Andrew Battershill

Really enjoying it so far.

I am so close to finishing off this project. Hoping to have it done by the end of June and I'll post a few photos of my favorite pages.

TED Talks at the Central Library on March 22nd. I heard the last round was really good, so if you can afford to go I'd check it out.

Spring Into Gardening. There's a few learning programs for gardening type things: low water gardenin; small space gardening.

I guess timing is everything though. Hard to think gardening when the city just got almost 50cm of snow over the last 72 hours.

My back does not want to think about digging in the dirt. :P

A place to discuss whatever is new program or event-wise at the library.

Maybe it's time to pull out a Saskatchewan author for my next read.

The Shortlist Announced for 25th Saskatchewan Book Awards.

Maybe Glass Beads by Dawn Dumont.

When I search the library on-line I almost never use the basic search. I almost always just directly go to the SILS search screen.

SILS

What this gives me is all of the handy metadata assigned to the books that are found like the old library Website. So I can find the English books and the format (book/ebook) I am looking for.

The other nice feature is you can filter it down to the location you want so you know what to look for when you head to the library. So when your son says they want to go to the Bothwell and not the Central library, you know what you will find on the shelves.

Of course, I do enjoy the serendipity of just randomly picking a shelf and looking for what stands out to me.

So what are everybody's tips and tricks for finding things? From using the libraries on-line tools to browsing in the libraries themselves to the rest of the Internet.

Has anyone noticed the little bookcase that is just outside the Dunlop Art Gallery office at the Central Library in Regina? Has anyone stopped to flip through any of the black journals there. Totally absorbing and fascinating.

This is part of the Dunlop Art Gallery - Art Bound Books Sketchbook Project. So I asked about how one gets one and I took one out. All I have to do is fill it up with whatever and return it to the library and it becomes part of the collection. I've been working on it since October last year and am about a third done now.

Just a lot of fun knowing that I'm going to have to send it back when I am finished. Although some days when I'm adding something to one of the pages I get a little wistful because I've never really worked through a sketchbook before so completely. I think I'll miss the little book, all crinkly from the paint and glue.

If anyone else has done this, I'd love to know what you thought about the process and about giving up what you worked on in the end. What theme did you pick? How did that affect how you approached blank pages?

And now it seems much zippier on the first load. Which is great.

ATC - Art is Our Mirror

Is anyone going to this? It is on January 27th, 2018 at 2:00PM (Sherwood Village Program Room.)

I don't think I've ever been to the Sherwood Village library. But I like the idea of creating some artist trading cards. I'd like to go, but it probably hinges on being able to peak the interest of my eldest. They do say teens though and he's only 8. Lol.

Alright, I fixed the graphics for the page. Not sure I'm totally happy with the masthead image, but it will do for now. No copyright problems since I took the photo a few years ago.

I do love the elephant. One of the fairly hidden gems in our city.

Has anyone read anything by the current writer in residence at the library Andrew Battershill?

Andrew Battershill's Website

Looking back over the list of previous writers in residence I've read a couple of the authors: Wayne Johnston and Gail Bowen. I really enjoyed both of those books that I read.

Marry, Bang, Kill looks like a fun read.

So I will get around to maybe fixing the group icon, it looks squashed and probably just need to crop it a bit, or add some blank space on one dimension to get it scaled better.

I'll also add a fancy masthead image so this place can look nice.

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
Ema, the Captive by César Aira
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling to read with my son

So what does everyone think about the new library Website? I know they have a survey running right now to find out what the public thinks, but I don't get to see those responses.

Slow: it seems slower than the old site, but it does look nicer

Search: I hate the default search. So useless when looking for a book title. You have to search once before you can select title and even then exact title matches aren't ranked to the top of the results. I almost always end up on the SILS (advanced) search page to actually find what I'm looking for

Welcome to a RPL Users' Goodreads group. I make no pretense to this being the only RPL group or the best one, it is just one.

I'm HomeInMyShoes (HiMS, Homey, Homes, whatever) and am currently moderating this group.

According to my library account my reading history is at 2,355 items. Probably around 700 for me and 1,800 for the kids. I'm mostly interested in world fiction -- generally authors not from the US and UK because I read way too many books from those countries already.