Writer-in-residence: Current accommodation practices for accessible texts across OCUL
When I started working with the Accessible Content E-Portal (ACE) project in 2012, my first priority was to understand how OCUL schools were similar…
OCULA Spring Conference 2013
OCULA'S 2013 Spring Conference was a day filled with activities that definitely brought out the creative side of participants--like the button-making station…
E-book collections: Time to reassess?
Now that academic libraries have usage statistics for at least some of the e-books we have collected over the past decade, a review of…
Craig Heron: Canada’s tough new labour market
Craig Heron. Photo credit: Canadian Historical Association Craig Heron is a labour historian at York University and the author of many articles and books…
Alison Head: Investigating Information Literacy (Part Two)
Alison J. Head, Ph.D., is the executive director of Project Information Literacy (PIL), a Fellow at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet and Society…
OCULA President’s message: What’s your mentoring experience?
In the last issue of InsideOCULA, I asked “what issues stand out for you as challenges for academic librarians?” Your answers are shown in…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: Summer 2013
Welcome to InsideOCULA Summer 2013 Editor's message: Ebooks, information literacy, solidarity and mentoring ... we've got it all in this issue. In the Summer 2013…
Writer-in-residence: A report on the Guelph Accessibility Conference
This year’s annual Guelph University Accessibility Conference took place on May 28-29, allowing its attendees to experience the beautiful green campus in full bloom.…
Call for Proposals: OLA Super Conference 2014
Super Conference 2014 is “A Universe of Possibilities,” happening January 29 to February 1, 2014. The Ontario Library Association invites you to submit a…
People News: Spring 2013
Appointments Brock University Denise Smith has joined the James A. Gibson Library as Liaison / Special Projects Librarian supporting History, Canadian Studies, Medieval &…
Corrine Laverty honoured as ‘true academic librarian’
Corrine (Cory) Laverty is currently the head of the education library at Queen’s University. Her long-time friend and colleague Melody Burton paid tribute to Cory…
UWindsor repository showcases research
The Leddy Library launched its institutional repository, Scholarship @ UWindsor, in November 2012. Since then, the repository – powered by bepress Digital Commons software…
Western builds TIES between education and technology
Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch inspired an audience of over 360 participants at the first annual Technology in Education Symposium, or TIES@Western for short,…