Visiting The Louvre: Why, When and What To See
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Modern Art Week
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The Domed Structures of Italy
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The Architecture of Parlament
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Grand Baroque Carved Details
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Prioritizing Library Services For Those With the Greatest Needs
One of the critical findings of Open to All? The Public Library and Social Exclusion (2000) was that people who use public libraries the…
What’s New in Open Shelf: July 15, 2016
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…
Tom Bentley
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #31: Tom Bentley (Coordinator, Information Solutions at the Brantford Public Library). I talked to a…
A Librarian at an Archivist Conference
A librarian attends an archivists conference. Insights occur.
What About the Books?
Recently, I was asked by a colleague at another library system to speak to their consultants about the library’s strategic plan. As a system…
Transition
Last month I informed Shelagh Paterson (Executive Director of the Ontario Library Association) that I would be stepping down as Editor-in-Chief of Open Shelf.…
Gardens and Orchards: Programming and Collection Development
In my last piece for Open Shelf I wrote about archival material and the potential pitfalls that may occur in accepting them. It got…