Jennifer Brown
Jennifer Brown is a teacher librarian with the Peel District School Board at Castle Oaks Public School in the Brampton. You can read more…
Tara Zarrin
Tara Zarrin is an information/marketing professional and has worked at various information/records management/marketing environments.
Rashed Ahmad
Rashed Ahmad is the First Nations Skills Development Advisor at Ontario Library Service North in Sudbury.
Arvind Singh
Arvind Singh works at the Hamilton Public Library as an Information Clerk and a Sunday Supervisor. He is the chair of the OLA Cultural…
Call for proposals on language & power
“You know you’ve just talked your way into an article for Open Shelf?” Anyone having a conversation with me may find themselves at the…
Mark Bullen
Dr. Mark Bullen is an adjunct Professor in the Master of Educational Technology (MET) program at the University of British Columbia. He was centrally…
Kasey (Mallen) Whalley
Kasey (Mallen) Whalley has been working in and with libraries for over ten years. After completing her undergraduate degree in English from McMaster University,…
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…