| Book requested |
When requested |
Why requested |
Is it in the library? |
| Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents by Ellen Ullman |
I forget when |
Robin Sloan's review |
Available! |
| Trillions: Thriving in the Emerging Information Ecology by Peter Lucas, Joe Ballay, Mickey McManus |
Sept. 26, 2012 |
Containerization (book trailer) |
Available! |
| Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour A. Papert |
Sept. 26, 2012 |
Learnable Programming |
Available! |
| Mapping With Drupal: Navigating Complexities to Create Beautiful and Engaging Maps by Alan Palazzolo, Thomas Turnbull |
September 29, 2012 |
Mentioned it at a Drupal meetup. |
Available! |
| Animal Behavior by Aubrey Manning, Marian Stamp Dawkins |
November 29, 2012 |
Mentioned on The Listserve |
Available! |
| Authentic™: The Politics of Ambivalence in a Brand Culture by Sarah Banet-Weiser |
December 13, 2012 |
Reviewed by Paul Ford. |
Available! |
| Chasing The Perfect: Thoughts On Modernist Design In Our Time by Natalia Ilyin |
January 17, 2013 |
Joe Clark recommends it. Also: his category on the book. |
Available! |
| Don't Go Back to School by Kio Stark | April 3rd, 2013 | Had been following the book on the author's website. | Not yet. |
| The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom Tango, Mitchel Lichtman, Andrew Dolphin | April 17th, 2013 | Tweet by @dlbno looking for it in Vancouver, couldn't find it. | On order. |
| The Boy Kings: A Journey into the Heart of the Social Network by Katherine Losse | October 6, 2013 | This is the book selected for the 24-Hour Book Club of October 20th, 2013. | Available! |
| Node.js in Action by Mike Cantelon, Marc Harter, TJ Holowaychuk and Nathan Rajlich | October 16, 2013 | Found out about it from a retweet by @sprice. | Available! |
| Railway Rock Gangs by Gary Sim | October 19, 2013. | Found out about it from a blog post on TransLinked. | Available! (but they had ordered it anyway). |
| The Mental ABC's of Pitching by H.A. Dorfman | December 10, 2013 | Mentioned in an article about Roy Halladay's retirement. | Available! |
| Ecstasy to Agony: The 1994 Montreal Expos by Danny Gallagher and Bill Young | February 21, 2014 | Book review at Cooperstowners in Canada. | Available! |
| The Hotel Eden Stories by Ron Carlson | May 27, 2014 | This is the book selected for the 24-Hour Book Club of June 7th, 2014. | Not yet. |
| NDP Country by Jennifer Woodroff | November 18, 2014 | Came across the @ndpcountry Twitter handle somehow, clicked through and found her book on an BC provincial by-election. | Available! |
| Deadline by Stephen Maher | December 1, 2014 | Mostly heard about Stephen Maher through Twitter and found out he wrote a political thriller set in Canada. | Not yet. |
| The Tecumsehs of the International Association: Canada’s First Major League Baseball Champions by Brian Martin | February 12th, 2015 | Found out about it from Cooperstown in Canada's review. | Available! |
| Foul ball!: Five years in the American League by Alison Gordon | February 13th, 2015 | Mentioned in Gordon's obituary in the Toronto Star. | Not yet. |
| In Pursuit of Pennants: Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball by Mark L. Armour and Daniel R. Levitt | February 26th, 2015 | Found out about it through the Pacific Northwest chapter of SABR's blog. | Available! |
| The New World by Chris Adrian, Russell Quinn and Eli Horowitz | May 6th, 2015 | Eli Horowitz and Russell Quinn are the authors of The Silent History. | Available! |
| Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman | July 14th, 2020 | Based on the book excerpt. | Not yet. |
