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Walkability Before Sunrise

February 11, 2015by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

I fully enjoyed the last two documentaries featured at the yowLAB FilmFest but was wondering, hey, what about exploring what makes cities click through works of fiction? Maybe it would bring […]

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Mind The Gap

[bib·li·o·phile]

January 27, 2015by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects By Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby (Birkhäuser) When it comes to designing the next “smart” electronics, is smaller, faster while featuring more […]

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Art, Artscience, Mind The Gap, Science

“Library Space is Community Place”: A Retrospect on the Success Story of the Relocation of London Public Library’s Central Branch

January 26, 2015by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

On August 15, 2002, a sprawling human chain of close to 2,000 volunteers passed books hand-to-hand off the old shelves of the London Central Library to its new home (Gillespie, […]

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Archives, Public library

A Blast from the Past and Back to the Future

November 10, 2014by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

“These racks and shelves contain a lot of books. Tens of thousands. Hundreds of thousands. Perhaps millions… How do you feel about them?” so begins this 1947 vocational guidance video […]

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Academic library, Mind The Gap, Public library, Special library

My MLIS Aspirations

November 10, 2014by Siu Hong Yu 1 Comment

These are my current fixations that drive me to skip lunch and stay up late. What are your aspirations?

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Mind The Gap

Photo/Quote of the Day

October 31, 2014by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

A connected world is a polyglot world. As we gain access to the thoughts, feelings, and opinions of people around the world, our potential for knowledge and understanding expands. But […]

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Education, Information Science, Mind The Gap

Campus Brutalism @ Western

October 20, 2014by Siu Hong Yu 3 Comments

I have to confess, I’m not a huge fan of the D. B. Weldon Library’s architecture. Although not downright ugly, I remember wincing a little at first sight over my […]

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Academic library, Architecture, Archives

Photo set: UWO ARLIS @ Doors Open London, Sep 28, 2014.

September 28, 2014by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

Just spending a gorgeous Sunday with UWO’s Art Libraries Society at Doors Open London…

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Mind The Gap

Art Now! feat. magic crystals + chemistry lessons

September 26, 2014by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

The light was low. One last student just entered and was now scrambling to find a seat at the back of NCB 117. Swinging her arm with a hand-held oscillator in […]

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Art, Artscience, Education, Science

Photo Set: Touring the Herbarium.

September 22, 2014by Siu Hong Yu Leave a comment

Set: Touring the Herbarium at the Department of Biology with the UWO student chapter of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Date: Monday, September 22, 2014. Location: UWO Biological & Geological Sciences (BGS) […]

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Mind The Gap, Museum, Special library

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