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Try It First: Make a Mobile App with Mozilla’s Appmaker
Earlier this month, I attended my very first hackathon here in the city hosted by Hive Toronto. As someone with limited coding skills, but have mastered the art of clicking things, moving them around and filling in form fields, I was glad the activity involved no programming at all. The…
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5 Things to Know About Hoopla, the Free Streaming Service for Videos, Music and Audiobooks
To end off a series of library-related posts, let me introduce you to Hoopla Digital, the mother-of-all free streaming service for music, movies, TV shows, documentaries and audiobooks that you could access and indulge in with a public library card. More iTunes-y than Netflix or Spotify, Hoopla is a cloud-based…
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Research Cheat Sheet: Tips From a Librarian
I recently wrote a guest post for freelance writer and editor Jaclyn Law who runs a blog called EditFish on Masthead, a website that covers the Canadian magazine industry. If you’ve ever found yourself having to dig up information from authoritative sources at 3 a.m., be sure to check out…
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Douglas Coupland’s Digital Orca in Vancouver
While I didn’t spot any real whales on my recent trip to Vancouver, I did snap a photo of Douglas Coupland’s public sculpture, the Digital Orca, next to the Olympic Cauldron and the Vancouver Convention Centre. Also, there was a giant whale skeleton hanging from the ceiling at the Beaty…
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Limitless City: Hong Kong
Hello, blog. You seem to be showing signs of neglect. I was busy making the online world a better place ran off to Disneyland. The Disneyland in Hong Kong, actually. I had a wonderful trip. It had been a while since I’ve ventured to a new city, and HK was…
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Profile: Eileen Lewis
Interviewed Eileen Lewis from the Ontario Legislative Library for the Toronto Special Libraries & Information Services Network, of which I was a member of. Check it out! Eileen Lewis may just be the toughest librarian at Queen’s Park. By day, she works as a research librarian at the Ontario Legislative…
Mimi Szeto 