Play your cards right! Designing game-based information literacy
Game-based learning has been around since the beginning of time … don’t you think? As kids, we learn by playing and as adults we…
Gathering with the voices of Canadian school libraries: Treasure Mountain Canada 5
As a teacher librarian in a busy K-to-8 school it would be easy to get lost in the day to day operations of my…
Safe spaces: The cultural appropriation debate
The Safe spaces column is an attempt to explore today’s persistent socio-cultural debates in light of the alleged values of the librarian profession: intellectual…
Chris Jasztrab
Welcome to The Library IT Crowd, a column brought to you by the Ontario Library and Information Technology Association (OLITA). We showcase some of…
Annotations: Writing short & sweet reader guides
If you work in a public library, chances are you’ve been asked to write an annotation. While it seems relatively simple—write a few words…
Michelle Goodridge
Michelle Goodridge holds a Master of Arts in History (2011) and a Master of Library and Information Science (2014) – both from The University…
Katy Anderson
Katy Anderson is an digital rights advocate at OpenMedia, an organization that works to keep the internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free. OpenMedia creates community-driven…
Michael B. McNally
Michael B. McNally is an assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta and his research interests…
Julie Anderson
Julie Anderson is the Manager, Content Management at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario. She has spent her career there as a library technician, collections…
Sarah Hurford
Sarah Hurford is is a senior archivist in the Archives Branch of Library and Archives Canada/Government of Canada. She has worked in various capacities…
Monique Manatch
Monique Manatach is a member of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake, a small community located in La Verendrye Provincial Parc, QC. She is a…
What’s New in Open Shelf: February 5, 2018
In this, our first issue of 2018, we are thinking about relationships—between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, regulations in Canada and the U.S., and libraries…