Rachel Di Cresce
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of the…
Laura Peacock
Laura Peacock, Information Services Librarian, works at the Kitchener Public Library. She specializes in Readers’ Advisory, running book club, and other reading for pleasure…
What’s New in Open Shelf – Training
We will list off the new articles in here and ensure that the published links are hyperlinked in here correct. This is the training…
New Story Post – Training
By New Contributor This is a new article that we will be posting for training purposes.
OCULA Lightning Strikes Winner
by Jordan Pedersen What do artificial intelligence, library social media preservation, Indigenous knowledge bases, and embedded librarianship have in common? They were the topics…
Powerful IL partnerships: Learning commons support for marginalized subjects
I like to think of the educational and health care systems in Ontario as being similar to some extent: teachers are the family doctors…
Kelly Thompson
Kelly Thompson is the CEO/Chief Librarian at the Renfrew Public Library. She spent many years as a child in the library she now manages.…
Exercise bikes at the library: we can work it out
By Helen Power and Sharon Munro Do you want to work and get a work-out at the same time? Come to the Leddy Library!…
Welcoming LGBTQ+ people
How can we demonstrate, through action, that LGBTQ+ people are welcome in libraries? In the first article in this limited series of conversations, Amanda…
Cultural appropriation
“No man is an island entire of itself.” ~ John Donne Cultural appropriation is a “hot button” and deeply polarising issue that is being…