Science Literacy Week: Libraries Come Together to Celebrate Science
The inaugural Science Literacy Week took place from September 22–28 at institutions across Toronto, including the Toronto Public Library, University of Toronto, Mississauga Public…
The Future Now – The Royal Society of Canada Report
Impressive. Important. Urgent. The Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel report on the future of libraries and archives was released November 13 (The Future…
Alien Nation? New Perspectives on the White Working Class and Disengagement in Britain
This is an uncomfortable but necessary read. It made me think long and hard about how public libraries engage and connect with working class…
Jason Neal
Jason Neal is a student in the Library and Information Science PhD program in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at The University…
The Persistence and Problems of Music Genre
Whenever we’re asked what kind of music we like, we typically describe our tastes in terms of specific musicians (whether composers or performers) or…
InsideOCULA Newsletter: November 2014
The November issue of InsideOCULA focuses on innovation, key concepts in information literacy, and the way the world views us. And, as always, we…
What’s New in Open Shelf? November 1 2014
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…
Carnegie Libraries: The Next Generation
Between 1900 and 1923 Andrew Carnegie’s program of library philanthropy provided 125 library buildings in Canada, 111 of these in Ontario. Some -- too…
Kathleen Scheaffer
Kathleen Scheaffer is the Outreach and Instructional Services Librarian at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. She works closely with information and heritage…
Digital Identity: A New Literacy Challenge for Librarianship
The librarian’s legacy and paramount role is one in the same: connecting diverse members in a multitude of communities with essential resources that are…
What We See When We Read
Reading is all about us receiving what the writer intends to convey. Right? Not so fast. We know the solitary act of reading is…
Ontario Library Association OLA
Founded in 1900, the Ontario Library Association is the oldest continually operating library association in Canada. With more than 5,000 members, the OLA is the largest…