Makerspaces: Service or learning resource?
At the 2017 Computers in Libraries conference, a librarian asked “Do you use your 3D printer, as a service or resource?" This seemed like…
What’s New in Open Shelf: December 7, 2017
Welcome to this, our last issue of 2017. We are featuring makerspaces and making culturally responsive libraries, as well as the final installment in…
John Vincent
John Vincent coordinates “The Network – tackling social exclusion,” a U.K.-based network of cultural and heritage organisations that work towards social justice.
Amanda Wilk
Amanda Wilk is a manager at the Country Hills Community Library, Kitchener Public Library. She can be reached at amanda.wilk@kpl.org.
Jack Leong
Jack Leong is currently the director of the Richard Charles Lee Canada-Hong Kong Library at the University of Toronto. He chairs the International and…
Dawna Wark
Dawna Wark is a manager with Hamilton Public Library. She sits on the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and is on the Hamilton Public Library’s…
Alana Skwarok
Alana Skwarok is the Collections Librarian for the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences at Carleton University. She holds a Master's of Library and…
Trish O’Flaherty
Trish O’Flaherty (BA) is a subject specialist in Research Support Services at Carleton University. In addition to supporting teaching and research in Business, Economics,…
The Great October Socialist Revolution
October 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the Russian revolution which began a new stage in the development of librarianship by creating the objective…
Games as community building blocks
By Michelle Goodridge I may have told you this story before but, even at the risk of sounding like a broken record, I will…
Ministry collaboration: Funding for rural public libraries
It’s like the flick of a switch. We go from being fairly competent at meeting our patrons’ needs to being completely inadequate. I’m talking about cottage country where the population varies according to the time of year.
Connect, converse & unite: IFLA’s Global Vision
We can find it challenging to have a meaningful conversation with a colleague who sits in an adjacent cubicle—life is full of everyday responsibilities that take our time and attention. So the idea of talking with library folk from around the world about our collective future seems daunting.
License unpacked: Inside our Creative Commons license
By Martha Attridge Bufton and Valerie Critchley We have revised our Open Shelf author guidelines, in part to make our editing and publishing policies…