Digital libraries provide organized, inclusive and open access to quality information sources. They are multifaceted and complex structures that offer a wide range and…
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…
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #22: Adele Magowan. Five years ago the Random Library Generator column was born…
One of the greatest strength of libraries is the ability to provide “personal touch” assistance. Indeed, the capacity to personalize service is what distinguishes…
Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Michelle Caswell. Michelle Caswell, a professor at UCLA’s Faculty of Education and…
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…
Wilberforce, Ontario is tucked under the southern border of Algonquin Park in the municipality of Highlands East which has a permanent population of 2,700…
Erin Kernohan-Berning is the Branch Services Librarian/Deputy CEO at the Haliburton County Public Library. She earned her MLIS from Western University. She also holds…
Meet one of OLA’s 5,000 members. An interview with random OLA member #21: Kimberley Christmas. Kimberly Christmas is the new Manager of Virtual Services at…
Mary Kosta is the Archivist for the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada. She is a member of the Ontario Library…
Good examples of folksonomies are found in the hashtags used on Twitter, which were originally an innovation of Twitter users. Hashtags are abbreviations, words…
