Introduction

This blog is mostly professional, but may have some personal notes in it as well, as it effects my professional activities.

Its namesake stems from my PhD research into regional identities in the late eighteenth century in what is now southern Bavaria. For more on this readers are referred to my recent piece in the Journal of Historical Geography.

I'm a reference librarian at the University of Manitoba, and while I continue to have an active interest in Historical Geography of Rupertsland, I spend most of my working days, as a Reference Librarian; over the last decade I've been a Librarian at a large Toronto-based law firm, a united way social service agency, a government lobby group, and an academic library.

You may occasionally encounter other entries in here related to issues I feel passionate about, be it in the Library world, the environment, or Historical Geography.