Stress Busters: Helping Students Survive and Thrive During Exams
Many of the students we support academically feel intense pressure to succeed. Add final exams to the mix and the increase in anxiety is…
Evelyn Smith
Evelyn Smith is the Help Desk Co-ordinator at the Gibson Library, Brock University. You can reach her at esmith [at] brocku.ca.
Building Your RA Knowledge Through Reading Journals
My cataloguing professor often referred to his “card catalogue mind”. I’m not quite sure what he meant by that phrase, but I like to…
Jonathan Younker
Jonathan Younker is the Head, Library Systems and Technologies at Brock University, where he has worked since 2002 in various roles, including: Electronic Services…
In Praise of Maker Culture
My library doesn’t have a makerspace. We don’t have a 3d printer, a CNC router, or a laser cutter. We don’t have piles of…
What’s New in Open Shelf: April 15, 2015
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…
Developing a Community-Led Service Culture
My previous postings have explored how strategies, structures and systems must be community-led if public libraries are to meet community needs. But the most…
Would the Real Information Governance Please Stand Up (Part 1/3)
What is "information governance" and why should you care? In simple terms it is about getting better control over organizational data.
Lindsay Tyler
Lindsay Tyler works as Manager, Member Services, Centre for Equitable Library Access (CELA) and is a member of the OPLA Readers Advisory Committee.
Work Like a Patron Day @ Brock University Library
You’re standing in front of the photocopier. Everyone else seems to know what they are doing. You’ve pressed the flashing button and swiped your…
Colleen Burgess
Colleen Burgess is a Research and Instructional Services Librarian at Weldon Library, Western University. She can be reached at caburges [at] uwo.ca or @CollaLibrarian
Run From the Numbers
When the volunteer role of divisional council treasurer is up for grabs, the response is often any of the following: stone silence, recoiling in horror,…
TRY Reframing Information Literacy: The New ACRL Framework
Librarians had many questions after the publication of the first draft of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ (ACRL) Information Literacy Framework for…