Features – OPEN SHELF

E-learning in Libraries Symposium: Fostering Collaboration and Knowledge Exchange in Digital Learning

The E-Learning in Libraries Symposium, organized by library professionals, shares advancements in e-learning initiatives across various libraries in Canada. In its 10th year, it continues to promote collaboration and community among professionals adapting to digital learning landscapes, hybrid work environments, and AI integration.

Features, From the OLA President, InsideOCULA

ChatGPT chronicles: Navigating the emotional landscape of generative AI in higher education

Generative AI have sparked debates in higher education, especially after ChatGPT’s release in November 2022. However, an often-overlooked aspect is the emotional weight LIS professionals have noticed about this emergent technology.

Features, InsideOCULA

Micheline Persaud: une pionnière des services en français dans les bibliothèques de l’Ontario

Micheline Persaud (née Boyer) occupe une place de choix dans l’histoire des services en français des bibliothèques de l’Ontario. Franco-ontarienne née à Ottawa en 1943, son parcours professionnel échelonné sur près de trois décennies nous rappelle le contexte effervescent des années 1960 à 1990 y compris les mouvements de revendications ainsi que la croissance rapide et les transformations dans le secteur des bibliothèques publiques, des services jeunesse et des services en français en Ontario.

Features, Publications en Français

The discourse of the game: An interview with Chris Young on UTML’s Syd Bolton collection

The Syd Bolton Collection is a new resource at the University of Mississauga that is bound to make the Library a hot spot for curriculum development in Games Studies. This interview with Chris Young (Head, Collections & Digital Scholarship) details the successes and challenges of a collection of this size.

Features, InsideOCULA

793.73: VOX POPULI

This month, 793.73 offers us up a “crossward” themed around some of the hosts and journalists from throughout the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s history. The answer to each hint fits into one of the rows of the acrostic below, but it’s up to you to sort out where.

793.73 (cryptic crosswords), Columns, Features

Bienvenue à la bibliothèque: Barriers to providing French-language library services

By: Katherine van der Linden and Claire Dionne This article is the first in a three-part series exploring the challenges of offering French-language library…

Features, Library Lexique, Limited Series

Bienvenue à la bibliothèque: Obstacles à la prestation de services en français en bibliothèque

By: Katherine van der Linden and Claire Dionne Cet article est le premier d’une série en trois parties qui examine les défis entourant la…

Features, Library Lexique, Limited Series

On Anti-racism and Indigenous Resurgence

As many parents struggle with how to share an ongoing climate of racist violence with our children and how to change it so that they might live in a different world, I turn to 3 books for librarians to recommend that manage to carve out a landscape of joy for children while not shying away from the urgent need for education on QT/BIPOC issues for young children.

Features, Limited Series, Picturebooks to heal the heart

Things are not fine: Fines in the library

In the past, late fees were seen as a method of ensuring that our books were returned and that people were responsible when borrowing materials. It is, however, more complex than that—fines neither raise funds nor align with public libraries’ purpose. In fact, charging late fees for overdue materials is doing more harm than good.

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Cultural diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Ling Lam is an assistant department head at the Toronto Reference Library.

Columns, culture@work, Features, Limited Series

Semi-colons, hexadecimal and a career in librarianship: Reminiscing about coding

By Dave Hook I don’t shy away from opportunities to geek out. Yes, I’ll happily discuss defunct search engines (say what you want about…

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Asian Canadian identity: A reading list

I have the great privilege of being old, and as a Chinese Canadian librarian, I have assembled this reading list of sources that have helped me grapple with questions of my own identity as an Asian Canadian. I hope this reading list helps the next generation with their struggles to be seen.

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Harvey Olnick Rare Book Room

The Harvey Olnick Rare Book Room at the University of Toronto Music Library contains over 2,600 volumes that exemplify the history of music, music editing, performing and printing—from liturgical manuscripts and early printed treatises to first editions of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Gershwin. Its namesake, Harvey Olnick was formative to its collection's development.

Becoming University of Toronto Music Library, Features, Limited Series, Uncategorized