Lisa Wallace
Lisa Wallace is a teacher-librarian at Worthington Public School in the Peel District School Board. With the additional proceeds from Scholastic Book Fairs, she…
Wayne Johnston
Wayne Johnston, Research and Scholarship Librarian, University of Guelph. In addition to his Leave for Change assignments, Wayne has also had international experience working…
Terri Meekis
My name is Terri Meekis and I am from Wabauskang First Nation. I currently serve my community as a Band Councillor and a Mental…
Alexandra Yarrow
Alexandra Yarrow, member of the OLA Indigenous Task Group; OPLA past president; and Manager, Alternative Services, Ottawa Public Library. Alexandra can be reached at Alexandra.Yarrow…
Lisa Radha Weaver
Lisa Radha Weaver, Director, Collections and Program Development, works at the Hamilton Public Library. Lisa can be contacted at lweaver [at] hpl.ca.
What’s new in Open Shelf?: April 2019
Fooled you (or maybe not) … here is the “regular” issue of Open Shelf for April 2019. This issue features stories and columns about…
Kids’ lit folks: Join the OLA Best Bets Committee
The OLA Best Bets Committee is inviting you to apply to one of four positions currently open on the committee.
Beguiling grief: Receiving positive support for loss in the workplace
Acknowledging grief in the workplace is critical to building trust and to ensuring that staff members can respond to the loss of a colleague in a healthy and a productive way.
“Proud of the work you do”: A conversation with Tanya Talaga
The annual Thunder Bay Diversity Breakfast fulfills a very specific mission: To work towards an inclusive, equitable community free of racism and discrimination of any kind.
The last bastion of democracy
When bad things happen, we should become even more open rather than follow the normal but very human response of condemnation and then censorship.
I won’t be levelling the library … and here’s why
I have a wealth of training and have done (and continue to do) a plethora of professional reading on learning to read ... the reality is that even the experts cannot quite agree on the “just right” approach.
Librarians Without Borders: 10 years of connections in Guatemala
Neither distance nor geopolitics prevent librarians and library school students with Librarians Without Borders from making the annual trek to the Miguel Angel Asturias Academy In Guatemala.
Two views on inclusivity
A conversation between Rashed Ahmad and Todd Kyle that offers two perspectives on inclusivity as it relates to the library world.