Privacy Concerns & Access to Information in Homebound Services
Homebound Services is a department within the Ottawa Public Library that selects and delivers library materials to customers who are unable to access a…
Academic Libraries and the Development of Accessibility Policy
Some thoughts on a recent student survey on document accessibility conducted at the University of Guelph.
Sean Hayes
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #28: Sean Hayes. Sean and I work at the same institution, but located…
Diana Krawczyk
Diana Krawczyk is the Manager of the Readers’ Den Department, Mississauga Public Library. She is a member and past chair of the OLA Readers’ Advisory…
What’s New in Open Shelf: January 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…
Roads and Fences: the Myth of Public Library Neutrality
As the saying goes, if you stand in the middle of the road you will get run over. Or, more colourfully perhaps, if you…
Charmaine Atrooshi
Charmaine Atrooshi (M.A) has been working in the Homebound Services department of the Ottawa Public Library for…
R. A. Priddle
R.A. Priddle is a bookbinder and a rare books/private collection librarian from Williamstown Ontario. He is currently on a one year contract at the…
Wendy Newman, OSLA Spotlight, Super Conference 2016
Wendy Newman is an advocate for the transformative power of librarians and libraries in the communities they serve. She retired recently as Senior Fellow,…
Darrell Dennis, Aboriginal Spotlight, Super Conference 2016
Darrell Dennis is a writer, actor and comedian. His one man show Tales of an Urban Indian was nominated for two Dora Awards and…
Policy Driven Integrated Decisions (Part 3/3)
Scott Adams, known for his office comic strip, Dilbert, published the non-fiction book “The Dilbert Principle” in 1996. At that time, ISO 9000 (Quality…
Time-bombs, Technology and Training
The challenges of managing archival material in small public libraries