We are embarked on a strategic planning process that we hope will enable the Open Shelf editorial team and board to identify the “value add” of the publication to OLA members and align with OLA’s strategic goals.

I wonder if students sitting in front of a large display outside my office have noticed that the subject is potent: Stereotypes.

As library professionals working across a diverse field, we experience tensions and triumphs as we work together. From discord to discourse promotes our capacity to be effective collaborators and co-workers.

Libraries are public spaces where people meet, take out books and study. Libraries hold communities together.

A library is clearly “place” in the sense of a physical space filled with books, posters, signs and desks. But just as obviously, a library is also people.

Everyone knows listening is a major starting point to any readers’ advisory (RA) transaction and listening to podcasts can play an important role before the interview even starts.

This month The Library IT crowd features Marni Tam.

Le conseil francophone de l’Association des bibliothèques de l’Ontario (L’ABO-Franco) recherche des professionnels de l’information qui désireraient présenter une communication.

This particular blank space is waiting for members of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) community to fill it up, decorate it, contribute.