March 1, 2017
What’s New in Open Shelf? This release is a special issue: Academic librarians and the PhD. We explore the relationship between academic librarians and the…
What’s New in Open Shelf: February 15, 2017
What’s New in Open Shelf? is a Table of Contents of sorts. Open Shelf publishes when we have compelling new material. Every two weeks…
Indigenous knowledge practices
If you are interested in Indigenous collections, history and approaches to the work done by archivists, librarians and museum workers, then you might very…
Trends … here & around the world
Featuring trends and happenings in information institutions at home and abroad.
Class and librarianship
The current crisis of capitalism has led to the renewed interest in Marxism and its core categories of analysis such as class and exploitation.…
Small Communities Making and Trying
Where is the one place you could go to have fun with a 3D printer or horseback ride on a simulated horse? The library,…
Leigh Turina
Leigh Turina has been working at Toronto Public Library for over 25 years as a children’s librarian in a variety of branches, including 2…
Alvin M. Schrader
Dr Alvin M. Schrader is emeritus professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta, where he taught research…
Amy Kaufman
Amy Kaufman is the head law librarian at Queen’s University. She has co-authored Out of Practice: Exploring Legal Career Paths in Canada (Carswell, 2015)…
Equity & Social Justice in the Library Learning Commons
I read an interesting tweet recently about transforming the perception of school libraries from a warehouse for books to houses of student learning. The…
Begin as You Mean to Go On
My mother, a teacher-librarian at the end of her career, left a great legacy: Pithy principles by which to live. And “begin as you…
Farewell … and Welcome
With this release of Open Shelf I'm stepping down as Editor-in-Chief. When introducing Open Shelf in August 2014 (Welcome to Open Shelf) I noted…