Stephen Spong
Stephen Spong is the Director of the John and Dotsa Bitove Law Library and Copyright Officer at Western University. You can find Stephen on…
Miranda Hill
Miranda Hill is changing Canada's literary landscape .... quite literally. As Executive Director of Project Bookmark Canada, she is creating the Canadian Literary Trail…
Copyright and the AODA
In Ontario, the year 2012 was something of a perfect storm for accessibility and copyright in libraries. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)…
What’s New in Open Shelf: February 1, 2016
What’s New in Open Shelf? is a Table of Contents of sorts. Open Shelf publishes when we have compelling new material. Every two weeks…
Sonification: A Special Issue of Open Shelf
Sonification .... "the use of non-speech audio to convey information." Data transformed into sound (or music) reveals meaning in a new way. Like visualization, sonification…
William Denton
William Denton works at York University as both the scholarly analytics librarian and the mathematics and statistics librarian. His library-related performances include a site-specific…
STAPLR: Sounds in Time Actively Performing Library Reference
"That music is simple to make comes from one’s willingness to accept the limitations of structure. Structure is simple be-cause it can be thought…
Katie Legere
Katie Legere has degrees in music from Queen's University and the University of Toronto as well as a Bachelor of Education and Master’s degrees…
Jack Jamieson
Jack Jamieson is a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information. His research examines how emerging communication technologies affect and are affected by cultural and…
There’s Information in Music and Music in Information
"A painter paints pictures on canvas but musicians paint their pictures on silence" - Leopold Stokowski Sonification is defined as the use of non-speech…
What Does Data Sound Like? An Overview of Data Sonification
In recent years the availability of data has soared, and there is a need for new methods for perceiving patterns and trends in this…
Enjoy the Conversation
Have you ever had a really great conversation with someone about books? She tells you that she just read a book she loved, you…
The Guelph Library Project: Final Report
Eighteen first year university students walk into a classroom and are told they have to decide the future of the Guelph Public Library. Yikes.…