Library Voices

I don't think there is a librarian amongst them, but they are a great band out of Regina and, well, it's Friday and it has been a week. Enjoy!

Step Off the Map and Float



Drinking Games



You can also listen to more from Library Voices, with much better quality, on CBC Radio 3.

Last year, they also had their gear stolen in Vancouver and they made an appeal on youtube to get it back. Watch what they reveal at the end about their band name:

Gender and the Recession

Emily Bazelon and Rebecca Traister discuss the effect of the recession on the depiction of gender, [hetero] relationships and the pay gap. This video-dialogue is from early March, but it is still full of good stuff that people are thinking and feeling, and how the recession continues to be depicted in major media.

Great Place to Work Canada

The Great Place to Work Institute has released their list of the best places to work in Canada. The list is selected based on employee surveys. The detailed pdf from the Globe and Mail explains the metrics that they used to determine the best workplaces. It also has a different list based on the size of the organization.

The Greatest Place to Work is Environics Communications, a public relations firm. They have offices in Toronto, Montreal and Washington D.C. This is their recruitment video. Get this: they want a person with a sense of humor.



Video from The National last night (sorry, they won't let me embed) briefly explains the survey and has requisite clips from The Office, cuz you know, that's the only office.

Potential changes to the hiring of graduate students into US Federal positions?

These two articles appeared on a message from WRK4US and I felt that they may be helpful to some librarians, and librarians who help grad students research work options.

• Agencies urged to hire more graduate students non-competitively
• OPM launches tool to cut red tape in hiring