My five-month mission: To boldly go where …
I have not gone before. Mission background: To make a “Best Bets” list of titles for this year’s RA in a Day, an annual…
Re-discovering the HWDSB Discovery Centre
The Hamilton Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) Discovery Centre - formerly Kit Services - began over 30 years ago. As the school board’s education…
The Value of Super Conference
I’ve written a few times about the changing roles involved in running libraries and how 'proving our worth’ has become a full-time job in…
RIMMFing: RDA cataloguing sans MARC
Author, title, publisher, year of publication—that’s all the bibliographic description needed to find an item, right? Maybe for a monograph but, even for one…
April 3, 2017
In this post April Fool's Day release, we reflect on the role of satire in a post-truth world, and introduce a new issue of…
April fools & fake news
Although April Fools’ Day often comes with a few good laughs, in many ways I approached the first day of April 2017 with a sense…
April 1, 2017
In this special issue, we bring to the forefront some very bizarre stories. While they may have eluded the mainstream news outlets, these stories…
Conservative leadership race and libraries
The Conservative Party leadership race is really starting to heat up now that libraries have become one of the key areas for discussion and…
Jeff Dodge
Jeff Dodge is the Collection Development Librarian at Vaughan Public Libraries. He currently sits on the OPLA Readers’ Advisory Committee and the Evergreen Award…
March 15, 2017
In this release, we're back with an OLA featured member along with some info trends, John Pateman's Open for all? and a new podcast…
Trends … here & around the world
Featuring trends and happenings in information institutions at home and abroad.
Two views on 2017
Here is the bird's eye (view) from our president and executive director. Leslie Weir and Shelagh Patterson are happy to share their thoughts on SuperConference and…
Leslie Weir
Leslie Weir est devenue bibliothécaire et archiviste du Canada le 30 août 2019. Avant son arrivée à Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, Mme Weir…